NAG 2a in regards to National Standards
I have included the NAG 2a which came out in a circular 2009/12.
Tolley has said that results will not be used in league style tables. Item (c) shows reporting to the BOT annual report which as you know is publically available. The press knows this and it doesn't take 1 + 1 to get to 2 and see that media will have everything they need to publish league tables.
A correspondent has suggested that the results could be required to be sent to a research organisation for in depth analysis and kept out of the public.
An earlier post today already shows that a school has been closed for underachievement and so this is a real threat. How will low decile and some rural schools compete with other schools? We have already had issues with rural schools being closed and destroying communities and this may not help.
I am fearful to think that schools will be compromised because of results for a narrow part of the literacy and numeracy curriculum.
This does not even start to address the gender gap in these two subjects. The cultural gap for Maori and Pacific Island children. The low and high socio economic gap between areas and within schools even. The fact that many children can demonstrate in many ways competence within a learning area but do not do well in a test situation.
All of these groups can be detrimentally effected by this policy and resulting league tables.
NAG 2A
Where a school has students enrolled in years 1-8, the board of trustees, with the principal and teaching staff, is required to use National Standards to:
(a) report to students and their parents on the student’s progress and achievement in relation to National Standards. Reporting to parents in plain language in writing must be at least twice a year;
(b) report school-level data in the board’s annual report on National Standards under three headings:
1. school strengths and identified areas for improvement;
2. the basis for identifying areas for improvement; and
3. planned actions for lifting achievement.
(c) report in the board’s annual report on
1. the numbers and proportions of students at, above, below or well below the standards, including by Māori, Pasifika and by gender (where this does not breach an individual’s privacy); and
2. how students are progressing against the standards as well as how they are achieving.
These requirements do not apply to boards of trustees that are working towards implementing Te Marautanga o Aotearoa until 2 February 2011.
For the avoidance of doubt, the first annual report to which subclauses (b) and (c) apply is that which reports on the 2011 school year, except for boards of trustees that are working towards implementing Te Marautanga o Aotearoa when the relevant report is that which reports on the 2012 school year.
Tolley has said that results will not be used in league style tables. Item (c) shows reporting to the BOT annual report which as you know is publically available. The press knows this and it doesn't take 1 + 1 to get to 2 and see that media will have everything they need to publish league tables.
A correspondent has suggested that the results could be required to be sent to a research organisation for in depth analysis and kept out of the public.
An earlier post today already shows that a school has been closed for underachievement and so this is a real threat. How will low decile and some rural schools compete with other schools? We have already had issues with rural schools being closed and destroying communities and this may not help.
I am fearful to think that schools will be compromised because of results for a narrow part of the literacy and numeracy curriculum.
This does not even start to address the gender gap in these two subjects. The cultural gap for Maori and Pacific Island children. The low and high socio economic gap between areas and within schools even. The fact that many children can demonstrate in many ways competence within a learning area but do not do well in a test situation.
All of these groups can be detrimentally effected by this policy and resulting league tables.
NAG 2A
Where a school has students enrolled in years 1-8, the board of trustees, with the principal and teaching staff, is required to use National Standards to:
(a) report to students and their parents on the student’s progress and achievement in relation to National Standards. Reporting to parents in plain language in writing must be at least twice a year;
(b) report school-level data in the board’s annual report on National Standards under three headings:
1. school strengths and identified areas for improvement;
2. the basis for identifying areas for improvement; and
3. planned actions for lifting achievement.
(c) report in the board’s annual report on
1. the numbers and proportions of students at, above, below or well below the standards, including by Māori, Pasifika and by gender (where this does not breach an individual’s privacy); and
2. how students are progressing against the standards as well as how they are achieving.
These requirements do not apply to boards of trustees that are working towards implementing Te Marautanga o Aotearoa until 2 February 2011.
For the avoidance of doubt, the first annual report to which subclauses (b) and (c) apply is that which reports on the 2011 school year, except for boards of trustees that are working towards implementing Te Marautanga o Aotearoa when the relevant report is that which reports on the 2012 school year.
Tags: education, gender_gap, league_tables, low_socio, maori, national_standards, pacific_island
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