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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 11 Hansard (6 November) . . Page.. 3858 ..

(3) For 1995 - These numbers represent a total of 28.6% (literacy) and 21.4% (numeracy) of students (in the assessment years) across the system.

For 1996 - These numbers represent a total of 27.8% (literacy) and 17.5% (numeracy) of students (in the assessment years) across the system.

These results were derived from non-standardised assessment procedures, unlike the ACT Assessment Program, and with a bias towards the higher end. This bias is partly attributed to the fact that the greater the number of students schools identify, the greater the resources they receive. That is, schools are resourced up to the number of students they identify subject to a cap of 20% of students being resourced system-wide.

(4) The release of this data, as with the ACT Assessment Program data, would have the capacity to identify individual schools and cause unwarranted speculation amongst the teacher and parent community about the apparent performances of particular schools.

Because of this I believe it would not be appropriate to release the requested data. This is the position the government has taken on the ACT Assessment Program data.

It needs to be understood that there are only 68 primary schools and 17 high schools in the ACT Government school system and the release of any data which identifies groups of schools by literacy and numeracy achievement has the real potential to identify individual schools.

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