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The report recommends that we support our teachers by providing them with training to increase their understanding of data analysis in respect of all standardised tests used in ACT schools. It also recommends that schools not teach to the test, not prepare students in any coaching way, and reassure and educate parents that it is a window into a student’s progress at a particular time, to be used to target teaching support where it might be needed.
We have the capacity and the ability to be the best in the country and the evidence provided to the committee in this inquiry is a big part of what will help us to get there. Despite attempts by some in the education sector to sugar coat everything, we have to acknowledge that everything is not all rosy in the education garden in the ACT and it could be better. To pretend otherwise is doing our current and future students a disservice and we owe our future generation more than that.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Economic Development and Tourism—Standing Committee
Statement by chair
MR HANSON (Murrumbidgee) (10.31): Pursuant to standing order 246A, I wish to make a statement on behalf of the Standing Committee on Economic Development and Tourism relating to statutory appointments, in accordance with continuing resolution 5A. I wish to inform the Assembly that during the period 1 July 2018 to 31 December 2018 the standing committee considered two statutory appointments to the ACT Government Procurement Board. I present the following paper:
Economic Development and Tourism—Standing Committee—Schedule of Statutory Appointments—9th Assembly—Period 1 July to 31 December 2018.
Statement by chair
MR HANSON (Murrumbidgee) (10.31): Pursuant to standing order 246A, I wish to make a statement on behalf of the Standing Committee on Economic Development and Tourism relating to petition 19-18 concerning fair treatment for international students which was referred to the committee on 24 October 2018. The committee notes the response from the ACT government dated 14 December 2018 and intends to take no further action on this petition.
Statement by chair
MR HANSON (Murrumbidgee) (10.32): Pursuant to standing order 246A, I wish to make a statement on behalf of the Standing Committee on Economic Development and Tourism relating to the committee’s inquiry into drone delivery services. On 1 November 2018 the Assembly resolved that the committee inquire into and report on drone delivery systems in the ACT. The committee is required to report no later than the last sitting week in 2019. The committee has held three public hearings and has begun drafting its report.
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