10.23.2017 - By NSW Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation
This audio paper describes six effective practices common to NSW government schools that achieved high growth in NAPLAN between 2010 and 2014. These High Value-Add (HVA) schools showed a strong positive institutional culture that emphasised academic, professional and personal development and strong engagement among students, teachers and the leadership group.
Read by Natalie Johnston-Anderson, CESE.
Read the full paper:
https://www.cese.nsw.gov.au/publications-filter/six-effective-practices-in-high-growth-schools
This research has recently been extended in-depth in the new CESE publication, ‘Sustaining Success: A case study of effective practices in Fairfield HVA schools’. https://www.cese.nsw.gov.au/publications-filter/sustaining-success-a-case-study-of-effective-practices-in-fairfield-high-value-add-schools