The Institute's program director of school education, Dr Ben Jensen, says their plan gives parents the information they need. The Institute today launched an alternate plan, which uses the same NAPLAN data but looks at student progress rather than test results. The Grattan Institute says while it supports the push to make more information on schools public, My School will not show how students' grades change over time. Our primary concern rests with the fact that the information on the website will be used to create simplistic and damaging league tables," Mr Gavrielatos said. "Our primary concern is not with the website. My School will use data from the National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN), which all students do in years three, five, seven and nine.Īustralian Education Union federal president Angelo Gavrielatos says the union has voted to boycott the next round of NAPLAN testing in May. "It will certainly enable us to compare similar schools, and it certainly enables us to know where the most disadvantaged school communities are," Ms Gillard said. She says it will also be a good resource for the Government. However, several parent groups have supported the proposal to provide information on school performance.įederal Education Minister Julia Gillard says it will provide parents and the community with accurate information, allowing them to be their own judge. The Education Union says it will unfairly stigmatise disadvantaged schools, and the Secondary Principals Council says it fails to include crucial data about school funding.
My School, scheduled to be launched tomorrow, has already come under heavy criticism. Retrieved 9 April 2012.Independent policy think-tank the Grattan Institute has added to growing criticism of the Federal Government's My School website, saying it will not give an adequate assessment of a school's performance. "Teachers plan test boycott over league table fears". "My School website data 'inaccurate and unfair' ". "Principals unite against 'unfair' My School site".
^ "MySchool website data has 'grave inaccuracies' ".^ "My School site a victim of its own success: Gillard".Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. ACT Department of Education and Training. The Australian Education Union has resolved to boycott future NAPLAN testing if the My School website is used in this way. Independent think tank the Grattan Institute calls for schools to be judged on the individual improvement students make every year rather than the comparison based on raw test scores used on My School. Principals claim that students have been asked to leave some schools because their performance on NAPLAN tests was expected to damage those schools' rankings. Teachers' unions and some parent bodies have expressed concerns that the data is being used to formulate league tables of schools. The primary aim of the changes was to increase funding transparency.
#Myschool site update#
Update Īn update to the site was expected in December 2010, however its roll-out was delayed until March 2011. It was launched by the then Minister for Education, Julia Gillard. The website went live at 1:00 am on 28 January 2010, but later in the morning the website became unavailable due to extremely high demand.
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