Curriculum Trends across Australia in 2000 - State by State

ACACA Compulsory Years of Schooling Group

Published by the Board of Studies NSW for the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Certification Authorities (ACACA)

Australian Capital Territory (ACT)

1. Standards and Benchmarking

1.2 How are standards and benchmarks currently applied in your state/territory? (current practice)

 

A national benchmark for Year 3 reading is already set and in the 1999 ACT Assessment Program the data was used to equate our students against the benchmark score. Almost 90% of year 3 students in the ACT scored higher than the national benchmark for reading.