SENATE INQUIRY INTO THE ADMINISTRATION AND REPORTING OF NAPLAN TESTING.

Check     http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/eet_ctte/naplan/info.htm

Submissions are due by 25 June 2010. The Committee reports to the Senate on 13 August,2010.

Send submission as an attachment to :   eewr.sen@aph.gov.au

[My submission  of 8 June is No.20 on website above.  Just substiutute ‘submissions’ for ‘info’.]

PLEASE M AKE SURE THAT YOU SEND YOURS ASAP

Comment is invited on my suggestions…

1.   Abandon blanket testing completely.  It is too dangerous for school life.

2.   Consider an Australia-wide start to compulsory schooling from the beginning of the year that a child turns seven years of age.

3.  Entrench seven years of schooling for primary pupils, called Year 1, Year 2 etc.

4.   Undertake a wide-scale discussion on shared parent-pupil-teacher evaluation methods.

5.   All Principals’ groups to be encouraged and supported to conduct their own in-service courses on current issues relating to NAPLAN ; and on Administrative Ethics and Professional Care of Pupils.

6.   Talk to school people about methods of improving what-it-is that needs improvement in the place of unilateral political decisions.