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Making the grade: benchmarking performance in Australian schooling

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Watson, Louise

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The Industry Commission review of service provrsion in school education has the potential to improve the quality of information available for the monitoring and reporting of school performance. If the Industry Commission review is adequately to address issues of school effectiveness, it should avoid the tendency of previous efficiency reviews to focus on financial data to the exclusion of data on student achievement. This paper suggests how the Industry Commission should approach this task,...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorWatson, Louise
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-04T00:26:54Z
dc.date.available2011-05-04T00:26:54Z
dc.identifier.citationWatson, L. (1994). Making the grade: Benchmarking performance in Australian schooling. Public Policy Discussion Paper No. 41. Canberra, ACT: Graduate Program in Public Policy, The Australian National University.
dc.identifier.isbn0 7315 2066 1
dc.identifier.issn1030-2190
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/7310
dc.description.abstractThe Industry Commission review of service provrsion in school education has the potential to improve the quality of information available for the monitoring and reporting of school performance. If the Industry Commission review is adequately to address issues of school effectiveness, it should avoid the tendency of previous efficiency reviews to focus on financial data to the exclusion of data on student achievement. This paper suggests how the Industry Commission should approach this task, recognising the lack of comparative data available on the outcomes of Australian schooling.
dc.format.extent29 pages
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoen_AU
dc.publisherGraduate Program in Public Policy, Australian National University
dc.rightsAuthor/s retain copyright
dc.source.urihttp://www.crawford.anu.edu.au/degrees/ppdp_discussion_papers/PPDP_41.pdf
dc.titleMaking the grade: benchmarking performance in Australian schooling
dc.typeWorking/Technical Paper
dc.date.issued1994-08
local.publisher.urlhttp://www.crawford.anu.edu.au
local.type.statusPublished version
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dc.provenancePermission granted to archive the paper and make it publically available
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