NAPLAN考试有学校整体作弊的风险

patrickzhu

因为My School对用NAPLAN的成绩作为对学校评判的争议，现在争议已经扩大到是否对NAPLAN考试采取更严格的监考制度。
目前NAPLAN考试都是学校自己的老师在做监考，而高中的会考则是由第三方来监管。

因为过去有报道说在NAPLAN考试中有个别老师和校长帮助学生作弊的事件发生。
特别是最近，美国乔治亚州爆出学校作弊丑闻，191所学校正在被调查他们在类似于NAPLAN考试时的作弊嫌疑，这更加深了澳洲本地一些人的疑虑，当然那些反对My School的人又开始忙活了。

看看SMH今天的报道。

Better supervision of tests needed to stop cheats, say schools
Anna Patty
February 17, 2010 - 3:00AM

THE lobby group for private schools is to press for independent supervision of the national literacy and numeracy tests to prevent cheating and corruption.

The NAPLAN tests are used to compare school performances on the federal government's My School website, launched last month. Schools have traditionally used the basic skills tests to diagnose learning difficulties, and the tests are overseen by teachers, unlike the HSC exams, which are independently supervised.

The Herald has received reports of principals and teachers helping students with answers in the literacy and numeracy tests to improve their schools' rankings.

The executive director of the Association of Independent Schools, Geoff Newcombe, said the high stakes now attached to the NAPLAN tests demanded that they be guarded with greater security, including independent supervision.

''The NAPLAN tests have achieved a high status in the community, and we have to make sure the implementation of testing is under a similar level of security as what we use for the HSC,'' Dr Newcombe said.

Trevor Cobbold, the national convenor of the Save Our Schools, public schools advocacy group, said one in five schools in the US state of Georgia was now under investigation for changing student answers to similar standardised achievement tests.

He said the Georgia State Board of Education had ordered investigations at 191 schools where evidence had been found of tampering on answer sheets. Monitoring of tests would be stepped-up at 178 schools.

''The case has momentous implications for Australia, now that My School is up and running and test scores have become the measure of a school's worth, as well as that of its teachers and principal,'' Mr Cobbold said.

''[It] is the latest in a series of cheating scandals across the US since the No Child Left Behind legislation came into force.

''The legislation has placed principals and teachers under pressure to improve school test scores and many come to think they must cheat to survive.''

The Greens NSW MP John Kaye said that while the majority of teachers in Australia would resist the temptation to alter test scores, schools that cheat would add to the ''already substantial unreliability of the My School website''.

''[Federal education minister] Julia Gillard is putting enormous pressure on the profession to teach to the test and to alter scores,'' he said.

"Test cheating in Georgia and the massive discrepancy between school test results in New York state and national tests should sound very loud alarm bells.''

The Association of Independent Schools of NSW yesterday published the results of a national survey of 1000 telephone interviews which found that if fees were not an issue, 42 per cent of parents of children in government schools would prefer to send them to independent schools. It also showed that 45 per cent would choose to keep their children in a government school.

General support for independent schools had increased from 54 per cent to 70 per cent between 2001 and 2009.

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This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/national/e ... -20100216-o8ze.html

旋木

最近由my school引起的风潮是一波又一波， 密切关注ING，感谢朱版为我们及时提供信息

chatchat

有家长反映说，附近有学校让成绩差的学生考试的时候不上学。

飞飞鱼

NAPLAN上写的很清楚，参加考试的人数，学生人数，还有exemption人数。

糊里糊涂

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