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Teacher professionalism
The report includes significant testimony to the professionalism of teachers, which can be held in stark contrast to the arguments presented around the impact of outcomes based assessment and reporting by the DET in the Industrial Relations Commission.
Some relevant quotes are:
- "The presentation of the data elsewhere in this Report clearly reflects the professional way teachers have continued to pursue the use of outcomes as a basis of their teaching and their reporting to parents. It is on these strengths that we need to build."
- "It was apparent throughout the Evaluation that the whole business of assessing student performance is now a much more demanding task. Teachers are being asked to adopt a system that measures the progress of students in greater detail than before. They are being asked to make judgements about each student's level of achievement. And they are being asked to be more publicly accountable for decisions about assessment as they appear on a child's report."
- "In short, professional responsibilities in a climate of increased accountability are now defined in such a way as to make the task of teaching much more demanding."
- "As noted earlier in this Report, there are a number of areas where there has been significant change in schools since 1995. Teachers have been asked to respond to a broad range of initiatives in that period, and have worked in a thoroughly professional way to achieve productive results."
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