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I REPORTING AND COMPARING SCHOOL PERFORMANCES Geoff N Masters Glenn Rowley John Ainley Siek Toon Khoo Paper prepared for the MCEETYA Expert Working Group to provide advice on national schools data collection and REPORTING for SCHOOL evaluation, accountability and resource allocation December 2008 Commissioned by the REPORTING and Accountability Branch, National Education Systems Group, Commonwealth Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) REPORTING and COMPARING SCHOOL Performances ii REPORTING and COMPARING SCHOOL Performances iii CONTENTS Executive Summary 1. Introduction 1 Audiences and purposes 1 Forms of information 2 Nationally comparable data 4 Principles for REPORTING 5 Structure of paper 5 2. Student Outcomes 8 Value-based considerations 8 Pragmatic considerations 10 What is feasible?

Reporting and Comparing School Performances iii CONTENTS Executive Summary 1. Introduction 1 1.1 Audiences and purposes 1 1.2 Forms of information 2

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