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)

Victoria

1. Standards and Benchmarking

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

 

School performance benchmarks are presented for schools in Victoria in a way that enables schools to compare their performance with the performance achieved by other schools. This performance is aggregated from the performance of individual students.

School performance benchmarks are presented to schools across the state in groupings or categories of "like" schools. That is; schools with similar social compositions of students.

Schools are urged use benchmark data to analyse and improve their performances in terms if the benchmark results for the school.