Major shakeup underway, changing the way schools test success

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Major shakeup underway, changing the way schools test success | 7NEWS

Politicians and parents are divided over the new way we’ll score our public schools while there’ll still be the HSC and NAPLAN, schools will no longer have to report the number of star students they’re churning out and could instead highlight improvements in attendance. So super six for reading. Yeah. Very well-done. As students prepare for their next test, tonight the shake-up in how you test a school’s performance. Pretty interesting. Yes, it is. At Beverly Hills Girls high, the principal says the problem with the old way. We really only looked at the top achieving students. What about all the rest of the students? Every school’s target was to get more students getting the highest scores in NAPLAN and HSC. Now principals can pick their own performance indicators everything from school-based grades and testing to attendance to whether graduates go on to further study or work. A lot more inclusive. It includes all students. But the opposition argues it takes away a consistent way to benchmark schools. You’ve literally got a situation where you’re trying compare apples with oranges. I think parents will be confused. Every class is different. Every school is different. Every community is different. These changes come after a big overhaul of NAPLAN which brought in tougher standards for maths, reading and writing. And in last year’s test, almost a third of the state students did not meet those new standards. I disagree with the NAPLAN, I feel like it puts too much pressure on students. Parents now waiting to see the results. Paul Kadak, 7 NEWS.