This paper was presented as a talk to the Australian Education Union Federal Executive meeting in Melbourne in September 2007 by Bob Harris from Education International and the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD. It contains comparisons to countries with standardized curriculum and national testing policies
"Expectations have been raised in Australia and comparable countries for an 'education revolution' t...
textPublic school accountability has become an important part of national educational policy. Schoo...
This paper analyzes whether information about the quality of high schools published in a national ne...
Nationally comparable data about school performances should be reported to the public, but should no...
The paper discusses the use of external knowledge test results for school ranking and the implicit e...
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the discussion of the effects of published school ran...
Many Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries publish school rankings...
Why Not the Best Schools is drawn from a major research project undertaken by Brain Caldwell and Jes...
"The Australia Report is part of a set of six country reports that support Why not the best schools?...
Over the last two decades, large-scale national, or provincial, standardised testing has become prom...
Since 2008, Australian schoolchildren in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 have sat a series of tests each May des...
Since 2008, Australian schoolchildren in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 have sat a series of tests each May des...
This report provides evidence beyond simple international rankings that the achievement levels of A...
This paper uses a rich set of student background characteristics to estimate the value added of seco...
Purpose There are elevated debates on the role of teacher unions on the effectiveness of education i...
"Expectations have been raised in Australia and comparable countries for an 'education revolution' t...
textPublic school accountability has become an important part of national educational policy. Schoo...
This paper analyzes whether information about the quality of high schools published in a national ne...
Nationally comparable data about school performances should be reported to the public, but should no...
The paper discusses the use of external knowledge test results for school ranking and the implicit e...
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the discussion of the effects of published school ran...
Many Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries publish school rankings...
Why Not the Best Schools is drawn from a major research project undertaken by Brain Caldwell and Jes...
"The Australia Report is part of a set of six country reports that support Why not the best schools?...
Over the last two decades, large-scale national, or provincial, standardised testing has become prom...
Since 2008, Australian schoolchildren in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 have sat a series of tests each May des...
Since 2008, Australian schoolchildren in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 have sat a series of tests each May des...
This report provides evidence beyond simple international rankings that the achievement levels of A...
This paper uses a rich set of student background characteristics to estimate the value added of seco...
Purpose There are elevated debates on the role of teacher unions on the effectiveness of education i...
"Expectations have been raised in Australia and comparable countries for an 'education revolution' t...
textPublic school accountability has become an important part of national educational policy. Schoo...
This paper analyzes whether information about the quality of high schools published in a national ne...