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SMH连续几篇文章针对两三周后的NAPLAN考试，真是“针尖对麦芒”，三篇文章附在后面，大家可以一读。
这三篇文章非常有意思，分别站在教师（部分），家长（部分）和政府三方的立场发表观点。
教师认为NAPLAN考试不能反映什么，很多教师要求取消这个考试；部分家长也反对这个考试；政府却要求将考试成绩及家长反馈和对老师的评估联系起来。站在不同的位置就有不一样的立场和观点。
我看有人说教师之所以反对是因为本来拿着高工资挺好的，现在突然来了一个考试，搞得他们压力陡然增加，原有的优哉游哉的好日子被破坏了。你是否赞成这种说法？
政府引进考试是因为看到澳洲的基础教育和亚洲其它国家相比已经开始落后了，再这么下去会使澳洲的竞争能力越来越下降。政府这么做对不对？
至于家长，尤其是local的，眼看着精英学校成了少数族裔的天下，这难道不都是那个selective考试惹的祸？如果没有考试，岂不是大家都一样了？
总之，炮火好猛。。。
以下文章均引自Sydney Morning Herald：
Call to boycott education tests Bianca Hallby Bianca Hall
A GROUP of education consultants is urging Australian parents to withdraw their children from next month’s annual NAPLAN (National Assessment Program, Literacy and Numeracy) tests, saying they are damaging children’s creativity.
The group, made up of teachers, consultants and academics, says the testing - now in its fifth year - is providing poor-quality information about students' abilities in the classroom, and is compromising students' attitudes to learning.
Campaigning under the banner, ''Say No to NAPLAN'', the group will launch its broadside against the government's standardised tests at the Australian Education Union's Melbourne offices on Monday.
Advertisement: Story continues below The union is not associated with the campaign, though it has provided the group with a rent-free venue for the meeting.
Group member Lorraine Wilson, who began her teaching career in 1959, said standardised testing was producing a generation of ''automaton'' children, and devalued teachers.
''All control of education has been taken out of educators' hands. These decisions have been made by politicians, not by teachers,'' Ms Wilson said. ''It's standardising the children and expecting them to be the same.''
The group will call on parents to boycott the tests, and says most parents are not aware the tests are not compulsory.
To support the campaign, the group on Monday will release 10 papers written by academics and consultants that raise several concerns about the tests, including their approach to spelling and supposed misuse of statistics.
In one strongly worded paper, former Primary Education Queensland director Phil Cullen described the tests as showing ''contempt'' for children.
''Over the past few years, schooling in the US, Britain, Australia and New Zealand has become a test-driven, fear-based operation. Effective teaching-learning strategies are being contemptuously ignored. Preparing for the tests dominates school time and pushes creative aspects of the school curriculum out of the way.''
But a spokeswoman for School Education Minister Peter Garrett said that reading and writing were ''the foundations of a good education'' and, without them, students would struggle to make the most of their school experience.
''NAPLAN means for the first time we have a national picture of how students are performing in these areas,'' she said. ''NAPLAN tests what is already in the curriculum. If teachers are teaching the curriculum, they are preparing their students for NAPLAN.
''We do not encourage excessive test practice. The whole point of national assessment is to give us an in-depth accurate picture of results in the essential skills.''
Parents urged to pull children out of NAPLAN tests
A GROUP of education consultants is encouraging Australian parents to withdraw their children from next month's annual NAPLAN tests, saying they are damaging children's creativity.
The group, made up of teachers, consultants and academics, say the testing, now in its fifth year, is providing poor-quality information about students' abilities in the classroom and is hampering students' attitudes to learning.
Campaigning under the banner ''Say no to NAPLAN'', the group will launch its broadside against the government's standardised tests at the Australian Education Union's Melbourne offices on Monday.
Advertisement: Story continues below The union is not associated with the campaign, although it has provided the group with free rent for the meeting.
A group member, Lorraine Wilson, who began her teaching career in 1959, said standardised testing was producing a generation of automaton children and devalued teachers.
''All control of education has been taken out of educators' hands; these decisions have been made by politicians, not by teachers,'' Ms Wilson said.
''What it's doing is de-professionalising the profession. It's standardising the children and expecting them to be the same.''
The group will call on parents to boycott the tests, saying most parents weren't aware the tests are not compulsory.
To support the campaign, the group will on Monday release 10 papers written by academics and consultants, which raise a range of concerns about the tests, including their approach to spelling, and supposed misuse of statistics.
In one paper, the former Primary Education Queensland director Phil Cullen describes the tests as showing ''contempt'' for children.
''During the past few years, schooling in the US, Britain, Australia and New Zealand has become a test-driven, fear-based operation,'' he says.
''Effective teaching-learning strategies are being contemptuously ignored. Preparing for the tests dominates school time and pushes creative aspects of the school curriculum out of the way.''
But a spokeswoman for the Education Minister, Peter Garrett, said reading and writing were ''the foundations of a good education'' and, without them, students would struggle to make the most of their school experience.
"NAPLAN means for the first time, we have a national picture of how are students are performing in these areas,'' she said.
''We can see what programs are working and where we need to invest more effort. NAPLAN tests what is already in the curriculum. If teachers are teaching the curriculum, then they are preparing their students for NAPLAN.
"We do not encourage excessive test practice, nor do we want to put our kids under undue pressure to perform. The whole point of national assessment is to give us in-depth, accurate picture of results in the essential skills every student needs."
Annual appraisal plan includes observing teachers in classroom
TEACHERS will be observed in the classroom and have to provide evidence of student outcomes as part of a yearly performance assessment under proposals released today.
The proposals will provide the first national guidelines for performance assessments of teachers, giving them a clear understanding of what they will be expected to achieve each year and of how their performance will be measured, the School Education Minister, Peter Garrett said.
The draft Australian Teacher Performance and Development Framework was developed by the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership, which will hold national consultations before the final framework is agreed upon and implemented next year.
Advertisement: Story continues below Under the draft, every teacher will formulate a set of specific goals for the year with their school principal or a delegate and have their performance formally reviewed.
Teachers will be able to provide evidence, including improved student results and feedback from students, parents, peers or supervisors, to show they are achieving their objectives. Their classroom teaching will also be observed.
''It will ensure that teachers receive constructive feedback on their performance, and can identify the support they need to become the best they can be,'' the institute's chairman, Anthony Mackay, said. Mr Garrett said the framework ''will allow our many terrific teachers to demonstrate how well they are performing and the positive results they are producing, while also providing opportunities to improve their skills where needed''.
A national approach to certifying highly accomplished and lead teachers, eligible for bonuses of up to $10,000, will be introduced next year, and Mr Garrett said teachers who regularly do well in their annual assessments will be encouraged to apply.
The president of the NSW Secondary Principals' Council, Chris Cawsey, said an annual review process already existed in the state's public schools, with the NSW Institute of Teachers' professional teaching standards providing a foundation for future accreditation.
She said the council would be concerned ''if NAPLAN was the only [student] outcome measure used, because it must be much broader, and if the federal government did not recognise the importance of self-evaluation in the work of professional teachers''.
The president of the NSW Primary Principals Association, Jim Cooper, said teachers would have more professional credibility when the community could see there were strict standards they must achieve. The NSW Teachers Federation president, Maurie Mulheron, supported the framework but called for it to be backed up by government funds for teachers' professional development.
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