澳洲维州教师必须接受NAPLAN项目测试

在澳大利亚中学教育



维州教师被告知要教授有争议的国家测试NAPLAN。以牺牲更广泛的课程为代价，让学校“教授测试”来提高他们在新网站上表现。维多利亚教育部门要求教师“明白地教授NAPLAN”，侧重语言读写能力和计算能力的教学，在课程中安排教授学生“每日的NAPLAN项目”。
　　
在副总理姬拉蒂发布“我的学校”网站的两天以前，面对教师联盟和校长的强烈反对，备忘录被送到维多利亚的Loddon-Mallee地区所有的校长手中。备忘录表示地区官僚将以提高读写能力和计算能力为目标，以提高在5月进行的全国测试的成绩。该备忘录写道：校长们应视测试为一项重要的事件，为能够在测试中取得明显进步的学生提供额外帮助。
　
NAPLAN（全国读写能力和技术能力评估项目）测试于2008年被引进，是“我的学校”网站采用的测试学术表现的唯一方法。测试基于阅读、写作、语言习俗和技术，测试结果与各州的联邦基金协议挂钩。备忘录中指出“对该项目的继续的资助由测试结果的进步决定”。

被泄露的备忘录再次引起这样的说法：网站的发布给老师和州政府施加了压力，以提高测试结果，昨天有一名校长认为它是“某件事情要来的标志”。Kevin Brown，Castlemaine 的Winters Flat小学的校长表示教育部门强迫学校缩小课程范围。他认为学校被迫花额外的时间来照顾测试，这意味着有些东西必须强加给课程，这是最令人恐惧的地方。澳大利亚教育联盟维多利亚分校校长Mary Bluett表示NAPLAN已经变成一种为州政府引入“我的学校”网站的高风险测试。
　　
教育部女发言人表示国家测试是帮助学校发现学生读写能力和计算能力水平的工具，旨在为需要这种帮助的学生提供额外支持。教育部的备忘录对如何为学生准备国家测试，例如练习测试，提出了建议。
　　
AEU花了超过18万澳元在12个月的观点民意测验上，来提升其反对学校排名的运动。这是2008到2009年，任何联盟发布的投资额最大的民意测验。姬拉蒂表示网站受欢迎的程度已经自己说明了问题，她认为AEU没有必要花钱来做民意测验，来证明“我的学校”网站是多么的受人欢迎。

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今天SMH有相似的报道

Schools sharpen up their profiles
Dan Harrison
February 5, 2010 - 12:11AM

ABOUT 80 schools have asked the agency responsible for the My School website to alter the statements they submitted about themselves after seeing how other schools described themselves.

A spokeswoman for the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, which runs the site, said the 200-word profile statements were collected several months ago and it was always planned to give schools the opportunity to update them.

''School principals have changed in many schools since last year and the new principal has a right to refine the statement,'' the spokeswoman said.

Other schools had wished to include data in their profiles that was not collected nationally such as the proportion of students who went on to university or other training.

''In the coming weeks all schools will be given the opportunity to update their statements,'' the spokeswoman said. This process would occur twice a year, she said.

Schools were allowed to say anything they liked about themselves in their profile statements, with site producers only correcting typographical errors and errors of grammar and spelling.

Since the site was launched a week ago, it has attracted 1.5 million visitors, and more than 80 million page views.

Meanwhile, the Victorian Education Department has been accused of pressuring schools to ''teach to the test'' in a bid to lift their performance on the My School website after it sent a memo urging principals to prioritise national testing in May.

Teachers have been told to ''explicitly teach for NAPLAN'' and to practise using test terminology and questions on a daily basis. In a memo sent to all principals in the Loddon Mallee region in north-west Victoria two days before the launch of the controversial website, the Victorian Education Department said regional officials would target literacy and numeracy to raise the profile of national testing.

Principals should ''privilege the testing as an event of significance'' and provide extra help to students who were capable of making significant improvement, it said.

The leaked memo has reignited claims that the launch of the My School website places teachers and state governments under added pressure to lift test results, with one principal yesterday labelling it ''a sign of things to come''.

The National Assessment Program for Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests were introduced in 2008 and are the only measure of academic performance used on the federal government's My School website.

Based on tests in reading, writing, language convention and numeracy, compliance with NAPLAN is tied to federal funding agreements with the states.

with Miki Perkins

This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/national/e ... -20100204-ngaq.html

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星期三晚上去学校开家长会， head master特别提到NAPLAN和my school网站，中心思想是NAPLAN是一个很重要的measure孩子academic成绩的一种手段， 可是在衡量学生的学习好坏中只占很小一部分，教育不能以一个数字来做结论

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学校和老师有压力了，好事情。学校抓紧了，我们华人就可以省省补课的钱，让辛辛苦苦的妈妈们都买几身好衣服。

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就是呀， 希望这些学校和老师能负起教育孩子学业的重则，这样大家都不用上补习班了， 还澳洲孩子们一个良好的学习环境, 大人，小孩都轻松
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