Schools with few Chinese students are very unhappy.
It is well known that children from Asia, especially China, do well in Australia.
And an Australian survey uses data to prove it again.
Recently, Catholic Education Commission of Victoria studied the NAPLAN scores of 120000 students from 488 Catholic schools in Victoria in 2017 and 2018, and found that cultural background and what language students speak at home are closely related to their grades!
Students from Chinese-speaking, Japanese-speaking and Korean-speaking families have an average math score of up to 65 points higher than that of English-speaking students!
And students with indigenous, African and Polynesia cultural backgrounds, their math score is 40 points lower.
To put it simply: children in Asia, especially in China, hang other students in math!
Even taking into account social education and other factors, the scores of Chinese students are still crushing these African and indigenous students.
This means that the cultural background of the students has a great influence on their grades!
Victoria Catholic Education Commission thinks this discovery is very important!
It proves that there was a deviation in our ranking and scoring of some schools in the past.
Take My School, the official website of government, Australia, which lists NAPLAN data and other indicators for all schools in Australia to facilitate parents to compare schools.
More than 1 / 3 Australian parents rely on the site`s data when choosing a school for their children, and other parents will move for it, according to the survey.
However, all kinds of reference data on this website do not take into account the cultural background of the students.
So Catholic Education Commission believes that this will lead to misleading data on the site.
In Catholic schools, for example, the proportion of Asian students is relatively low, while the proportion of students from Africa and other native-speaking non-English-speaking countries is relatively high
Without so many Asian students, the school`s NAPLAN scores will of course be affected.
So Catholic Education Commission calls on government to take into account the cultural background of students when evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of a school.
The subtext is: can NAPLAN`s low grades blame the school for being bad?
No! It`s mainly because we don`t have so many Asian masters.
