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April 20 SMH的报道
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NAPLAN考试的一系列问题,比如考试范围的学习大纲出台,学生的考试补习课程,松散的监考制度和教师工会的抵制,
已经让NAPLAN考试变成了衡量学校学业表现的“有缺陷工具”了。昨天NSW中学的校长们提出了如是警告。
NSW Secondary Principals Council的主席Jim McAlpine在给校长们的一封信里说,老师们抵制NAPLAN考试的行动是一种破坏。
NAPLAN考试正在成为一个来衡量学校表现的有缺陷工具,在目前这样恶劣的环境下进行考试将会让NAPLAN缺乏有效性。
NAPLAN考试范围学习大纲的出台和学生针对考试补习的出现,已经让今年的考试不再是一个对学生评估学业表现的真正指导指标了,而松散的监考制度和缺乏考试公正性保障,会让NAPLAN考试成绩对于学生和他们的家长的参考价值大幅减少。
ACARA的主席Barry McGaw说,考试大纲学习指导和补习课程只能帮助学生熟悉考试结构和流程,除此之外它们没有任何帮助。
Tests 'flawed, lack validity'
Anna Patty EDUCATION EDITOR
April 20, 2010 - 3:00AM
THE publication of study plans, student coaching courses, low security and a teacher ban on next month's national literacy and numeracy tests have turned the tests into ''flawed instruments'' for measuring school performance, NSW high school principals were warned yesterday.
In a letter to the principals, the president of the NSW Secondary Principals Council, Jim McAlpine, said the teacher ban on the National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests would cause disruptions.
The tests were becoming ''flawed instruments for measuring school performance'' and done ''in such hostile circumstances would lack validity'', Mr McAlpine said.
''The publication of NAPLAN study guides and the creation of student coaching courses have already ensured that the tests this year will not be a real guide to student progress and performance level, and the lack of security and assurances of probity further reduce the potential for NAPLAN results to be useful to individual students and their families,'' he said.
The chairman of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, Barry McGaw, said study guides and coaching courses could only help familiarise students with the test format.
''Beyond that it will not help,'' Professor McGaw said.
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