Ministers are considering a major shake-up of the My School website to emphasise school improvement, but some experts fear it will reduce transparency | JordsBaker
The second option would do all those things, but take the extra, controversial step of removing a table showing each school's raw average NAPLAN scores across the different tests and years, "to reflect concerns that tables make it easier for media organisations to create league tables". Results would be depicted as graphs.
Numerical tables containing a school's results across all years and subjects would be removed under the second of two options to be considered by education ministers.Peter Goss, director of the School Education Program at the Grattan Institute, a think tank, welcomed the focus on progress and the moves to simplify the presentation of My School, but was concerned about removing raw average results.
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