A new measure of success for WA students beyond NAPLAN and ATAR
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The falling number of West Australian students choosing ATAR and the ever-expanding pathways to university has education researchers searching for more ways to measure student success.
The number of WA year 12s achieving an ATAR has dropped 10 per cent from 2015 (58.3 per cent) to 2020 (48.4 per cent), with an increasing amount of students choosing different paths to further their education or find employment.
All Saints’ College students and teachers working together to find new measures of success.
All Saints’ College dean of teaching and learning Esther Hill said universities were looking at broader measures of success for students to enrol.
A new measure of success for WA students beyond NAPLAN and ATAR
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A new measure of success for WA students beyond NAPLAN and ATAR
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âThe children decidedâ: Schools join quest for better gauge of student progress
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On one level it was a straightforward play-based assignment for the year 1 students of Princes Hill Primary School: they were to design and make a collection of toys to be given to asylum seeker children living in Australian detention centres.
But it was also radical, in that the teacher hadnât set the children any tasks. They had come up with the ideas themselves in a series of classroom discussions about the notion of play and how different cultures do it differently.