National survey ranks our best classrooms
* Justine Ferrari, Education writer
* From: The Australian
* May 01, 2010 12:00AM
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/ ... rg6nf-1225860838693
MONEY still buys the best education in Australia, with elite schools in NSW and Victoria dominating a list of the nation's top 100 schools prepared exclusively by The Weekend Australian.
The first national analysis of school performance shows that NSW and Victorian schools outperform their interstate counterparts, accounting for more than 90 per cent of the top schools while comprising only 57 per cent of the nation's schools.
The results are not strictly comparable with Queensland and Western Australia. In Queensland, students have on average a year's less schooling than their peers interstate and are about five months younger than the national average at Year 3, the first year of the national testing.
In both states, Year 7 is still part of primary school, while in the rest of the country it is the first year of high school, leading to differences in expectations for students.
Nonetheless, the analysis of the national literacy and numeracy tests results published on the My School website reveals elite private schools dominate the top 100, although the top high schools are selective public schools.
All but a handful of schools in the top 100, public and private, are in areas of above-average affluence.
The analysis was conducted on behalf of The Weekend Australian by experts in testing and reporting, Peter Knapp and Robert Schulz, formerly with Educational Assessment Australia at the University of NSW.
It is based on reading and numeracy results from the 2009 NAPLAN (National Assessment Program -- Literacy and Numeracy) for Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. It excludes small schools -- primary schools of fewer than 100 students and high schools with fewer than 200 students -- because of the statistical unreliability of results.
The analysis confirms the reputation of the James Ruse Agricultural High School in northwestern Sydney, for long the leading high school in NSW's Higher School Certificate and now shown as the leading school in the nation.
James Ruse is one of NSW's 21 fully selective high schools, accepting students based on their academic ability as measured by an entrance exam, that dominate the group of top 20 high schools.
Leading the primary schools is Sydney Grammar, which is also academically selective. In reading, its two junior campuses rank either side of Tintern Girls Grammar in eastern Melbourne, which ranks second in reading, while in numeracy they take the top two spots ahead of Macedon Primary School, just outside Melbourne.
Independent schools dominate the top 100, accounting for 42 per cent of the leading primary and 64 per cent of the top high schools in reading. In numeracy, 34 per cent of the top primary schools and 58 per cent of the leading high schools are independent.
Public schools perform better at the primary level, accounting for one-third of the top 100 schools in reading and more than half the top schools in numeracy. But the public sector's share drops in high school, when enrolments in private schools jump, with government high schools accounting for only one-quarter of the top schools in reading and 35 per cent of the top schools in numeracy.
The analysis shows that NSW and Victoria are punching above their weight. NSW has one-third of the nation's schools but 62 per cent of the top 100, while Victoria has 24 per cent of the nation's schools and 28 per cent of the top 100. The biggest disappointment is Queensland, which has 18 per cent of schools but only 2.5 per cent of the top 100, while the Northern Territory does not have any schools in the top 100.
The Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority, which runs the My School website, compares schools on the basis of the social and educational backgrounds of their families, measured by the Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage. The analysis shows few top schools teach students from disadvantaged backgrounds, with only five schools in the top 100 with a below-average ICSEA score.
Dr Knapp, who has 20 years' experience in curriculum and assessment and now acts as an education consultant, said the dominance of NSW schools could be attributed to the state's curriculum, which specifies in detail what teachers should teach.
While it is no surprise that selective high schools, which pool the brightest students thereby raising average scores, top the nation, NSW also dominates the top primary schools, where little academic selection occurs.
Demographer Bernard Salt attributed the success of NSW and Victorian schools to the pulling power of the Melbourne and Sydney job markets, which attract the best locally and globally.
"Melbourne and Sydney are education hothouses, carefully designed to cultivate the best-growing mushrooms, the kids," Mr Salt said.
"Education begets education. If both mum and dad work and are educated with a tertiary degree, then you're more likely to have a home environment that cultivates further education and the resources like a separate bedroom, a study and computer."
Queensland Education Minister Geoff Wilson said comparing Queensland schools with their interstate counterparts teaching similar students showed that the state's high school generally performed as well or better. "Despite this encouraging picture, and despite our improved performance in 2009 over 2008, we acknowledge that overall, Queensland is not where it wants to be: that is, among the higher performing jurisdictions," he said.
He said simplistic league tables ranking schools on single measures, such as NAPLAN test results, were "specious and misleading" and of no benefit to parents wishing to make an informed choice on schools.
But Ben Jensen, school education research director at the Grattan Institute in Melbourne, said looking at differences between states and school systems was vital to hold governments and leaders of school systems accountable for the performance of schools.
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按学校排名不如按人种排名。
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[ 本帖最后由 landing 于 2010-5-1 22:38 编辑 ]
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为了那个插图256KB的限制折腾了半天！
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墨尔本呢 Burwood这么牛逼？
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哇，ringwood的tintern girls grammar这么牛啊比较其他基本都在贵区的学校， 住ringwood附近的同学真是有福了
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眼睛都看花了
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校无名。有好事者。传帖发之。
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Tintern一直都挺牛的，而且这所学校相对来说在私校中不那么贵族，父母是工薪族的占多数，比较“平民化”。
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我把楼主转贴的新闻翻译了，让大家看起来方便些
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澳洲人报周末版大幅报道澳洲学校排名的情况。
National Survey Ranks Our Best Classrooms
在澳洲有钱还是可以买最好的教育，新南威尔士州和维多利亚州的好学校在澳洲全国顶尖100所学校排名里占据了主导，这个排名是由【澳洲人报】独家推出的。
学校的整体表现分析显示，NSW和VIC两个州的学校领先于其他各州，在顶尖100所学校的排名榜上这两个州有超过90所学校上榜，而这两个州的学校总数只占澳洲全国学校总数的57%。
这个排名结果没有严格地对应于QLD和WA这两个州的情况。QLD学生的学校生涯平均会比其他澳洲各州的学生短一年左右，而QLD Year 3学生在NAPLAN的第一次考试时的平均年龄会比其他各州学生小5个月左右。
在QLD和WA这两个州，Year 7仍然是小学阶段（最后一年），而在澳洲的其他各州Year 7就是中学（初中）的第一年了，因此这造成了对学生期待的很大差别。
即便如此，从My School网站上显示的NAPLAN成绩数据分析看出，虽然全国成绩最好的前100所学校里的翘楚都是公立的精英中学，但是一流私校仍然占据了前100名的大部分位置。
除了少数学校，前100名的公立和私立学校都是在平均水平之上的富裕地区。
这个排名分析是由【澳洲人报】周末版委托两位前新南威尔士大学的教育评估专家Peter Knapp和Robert Schulz完成的。
这个报告是基于2009年NAPLAN考试中阅读和数学（Reading and Numeracy）两科的成绩的分析得出的。采样的学校里排除了规模小的学校 - 学生人数少于100人的小学和学生人数少于200人的中学 - 因为小样本的数据在统计学上被认为不可靠。
分析报告确认在悉尼西北区的James Ruse Agricultural High School的王者声誉，这个NSW州的著名公立精英中学长期以来是HSC高考成绩的冠军，现在NAPLAN的成绩还是全国的第一。
James Ruse Agricultural High School是新南威尔士州21所全制精英中学中的一所，这个中学根据其精英中学考试的成绩来招生，James Ruse在全国成绩最好的前20名中排在第一。
全国范围里小学的领头羊是Sydney Grammar，这是个非常注重学业的私立学校。在阅读单科上面，Sydney Grammar的两个小学校区（Edgecliff和St Ives）分校列在小学前100名里的第一第三，阅读成绩列第二的是在墨尔本东区的Tintern Girls Grammar。
Sydney Grammar的St Ives和Edgecliff的小学部分别在数学课目上名列冠亚军，数学上的第三是离墨尔本不远的Macedon Primary School。
私立学校和教会学校主导了前100最好学校的名单。阅读课目里名列前茅的有42%的小学和64%的中学是私立和教会学校。数学课目里名列前茅的有34%的小学和58%的中学是私立和教会学校。
公立学校在小学水平里表现较好，阅读成绩的前100名里有三分之一和数学科目上的一半比例是公立小学。但是公立中学的水准就大为降低了，在私立中学招生人数大幅增加的背景下，政府公立中学在前100名榜单里只有阅读上的25%和数学上的35%。
分析报告显示，NSW和VIC两州的水平超强，占全国学校总数三分之一的NSW在前100名里的比例有62%，占全国学校总数的24%的VIC有28%的学校列在前100名。最失望的是QLD，QLD的学校占了全国总数的18%，但是前100榜单里只有2.8%的学校来来自于QLD。北领地（NT）则没有任何学校入榜。
负责My网站的ACARA（Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority）使用基于家庭社会和教育背景的ICSEA指标来比较学校。分析也指出前100名最好的学校里家庭社会和教育背景差的学生比例很小，榜单里只有5所学校的ICSEA值是低于全国的平均水平的。
Knapp博士在教学大纲和评估上有20年的经验，现在是作为一名教育顾问，他说新南威尔士州学校表现出色可以归功于州立的教学大纲，因为大纲非常详细指导教师具体教些什么。
对于精英中学则没啥过多的惊讶了，因为精英中学拥有全国最聪明的学生，因此在全国成绩领先。但是新南威尔士州也在小学部分领先，而其小学的大部分是没有精英班制度的。
人口统计学家Bernard Salt则把NSW和VIC的成功归功于墨尔本和悉尼工作市场上的向心力，吸引了澳洲本地和全球最好的人才。
Salt先生说，墨尔本和悉尼是教育温室，设计用来培养最好的蘑菇 - 我们的孩子。
教育可以促进教育。如果父母双方都有大学学历，那么你很有可能会有一个很好的对教育有利的家庭环境和资源，比如有一间独立的卧室有一个书房和一台电脑。
昆士兰教育部长Geoff Wilson说，比较昆士兰的学校和其他各州相似学校，昆士兰的中学水平总体表现很好甚至还好一些。不考虑昆士兰在2009年对比于2008年成绩的很大进步，我们认识到总体上昆士兰做的还是很不够，特别是相对于更高目标的学业表现而言。
这位部长说，简单化的学校排名，比如用NAPLAN的考试成绩来单一衡量学校表现，是似是而非的和会产生误导，对希望对学校有明智选择的家长没有任何好处。
但是墨尔本的the Grattan Institute的学校教育研究主管Ben Jenson说，审视州和州之间，不同学校系统之间的差别，对于保持政府公立系统学校表现的可量化性是很有必要的。
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我两个孩子的学校榜上都很靠前，但我孩子在学校都是垫底的学生，不知是喜是犹。
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顶
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做个标记，以后等宝宝要上学的时候再好好研究。
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Thanks for sharing!
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Thank you very much.
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