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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 4 Hansard (8 May) . . Page.. 1229 ..

MINISTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION NUMBER 411

Learning Assistance Program

MR MOORE - asked the Minister for Education and Training on notice on 10 April 1997:

In relation to the learning assistance assessments in government primary and high schools for 1995 and 1996 -

(1) What was the total number of students in each Year level (1 -9) (a) in primary; and (b) in high school at the August census.

(2) What was the total number of students at each Year level (1-9) identified by the assessments as requiring learning assistance in (a) literacy; and (b) numeracy.

(3) What was the lowest and highest level of identified need for any school in each Year level in literacy and in numeracy as percentages of the total number of students in each Year level.

(4) For each Year level, what was the number of primary and high schools with identified needs within the following ranges for literacy and for numeracy: less than 10%, 10-19%, 20-29%, 30-39% and 40% or over.

MR STEFANIAK - the answer to Mr Moore's question is:

(1) Primary School High School

Year 1 3304 Year 7 2688

Year 2 3238 Year 8 2922

Year 3 3118 Year 9 2726

Year 4 3003

Year 5 3028

Year 6 3136

(2), (3), (4) The information to answer questions (2), (3) and (4) is not readily available and a very considerable amount of resource diversion would be required to provide the answers to these questions. Furthermore the data that would need to be accessed and manipulated is unvalidated and would vary from school to school because it has never been standardised across schools.

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