Over the past decade, education systems have become experts in using data, such as test results, to track the progress of students and schools.
Families can find out the extent to which schools help students in years 3 to 9 improve in literacy and numeracy on the federal government’s My School website, which publishes NAPLAN results. But the Higher School Certificate, which is run by NSW, remains an information black hole.ran a story headlined ‘The Class We Failed’, which identified the lowest-performing students in the state, at Mt Druitt High, and asked whether they were let down by the system.
Spurred by the outrage, the government introduced laws to limit the publishing of any HSC data to the top 10 per cent of schools. In 2001, it began releasing only the names and schools of students who finished in the top HSC performance band.and other media outlets calculate band 6s or E4s as a proportion of total course entries to work out the top schools. We acknowledge it is a limited metric, and that it would be in the best interests of students to discuss a better approach.
It does not recognise schools that achieve fewer band 6s than similar schools because they promote challenging courses in which achieving a top result is more difficult, such as physics and chemistry, but which better prepare students for university. Those students’ hard work shows up in their Australian Tertiary Admission Rank, which is scaled for difficulty, rather than in their HSC result, which is not.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
JordsBaker Celebrate kids trying, or not trying, give them a high ATAR as an participation award so they don't feel bad. Poor little babies need a bit more support, let's give them all an ATAR of 100 so no one feels bad, otherwise they may suffer mental issues
JordsBaker I interviewed a young man with some form of maths HSC score. It turned out he could neither understand nor calculate a square root. Until the HSC corresponds to actual education it will be constantly mocked.
JordsBaker But for most areas we need final exams of some length and they must be worth 50% minimum. You must pass the final exam to pass the course. Cambridge and Oxford and Australia before 1970 had exams worth 100%. Assignments are just to get you ready for the final end of year exam.