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有兴趣的同学可以读一读 Mark Scott 的报告。报告中回顾了NSW精英教育的过去，现在，也谈到了精英教育将来的改革和发展方向。下面这一段也许很多人不愿意看到。
Dip in high achievement performance
Of great concern nationally is the slide in performance among our high achievers on international and national assessments. If we track the percentage of students achieving in the ‘high' achievement range (top two bands) on the three PISA test components from 2000 to 2015, we see a general decline, nationally, from 17% for reading, 20% for mathematics, and 15% for science, down to 11% for all three in 2015. High SES students have recorded the more notable drop in maths achievement.
If we look at the percentage of students who achieved at the advanced benchmark for Year 8 Science in TIMMS in 2015, we can see that NSW is behind some major English-speaking economies such as the United States and England – and well behind major Asian high achievers.
However, the picture gets worse if we look at the percentage of students reaching the advanced achievement benchmark for TIMMS 2015 Year 8 Science sorted by GDP per capita.
High figures show that a country has a very high percentage of high-achieving students compared to their GDP per capita (such as emerging economies like Kazakhstan and Hungary). Strong Asian economies like Japan and Singapore hold up very well.
Australia and NSW – with a very high GDP but lower percentages of high achievers – is down the bottom of the graph. We are also behind many English-speaking economies.
So if NSW was a nation it would rank 18th in Year 8 science on the basis of straight achievement – but 31st out of 38 countries when GDP is taken into account.
GDP, of course, is an indicator of economic output and is strongly related to levels of higher education, research output and technology development – so really there should be a relationship between GDP and academic high performance.
Another indicator that goes to the heart of our equity concerns is the visible gap between non-Indigenous and Indigenous students in the high achievement range in these international tests. There has been some improvement in student results for Aboriginal students from 2012 to 2015 but the gap is still too wide.
Across many measures, not enough high potential Australian students are achieving their academic potential. We recognise that student underachievement is a significant problem not just limited to gifted students, but also to high potential students who are above the average range, but may not be in our selective schools or classes.
近十几年来，澳洲和 NSW 的经济发展良好。但是，教育水平却严重倒退。尤其是优秀学生的数目大幅度下滑。（个人认为）NSW的精英教育政策不但改善这种状况，反而促进了教育水平的倒退。报告把这种现象归咎于很多真正有天赋的学生被排斥在精英教育之外。现行的精英入学试没有正确地选择真正有天赋的学生。因此，有必要对入学试作调整和修改。
NSW精英教育政策最成功之处，就是促进了补习行业的蓬勃发展。补习成为精英教育中一个必不可缺的组成部分。
报告虽然主要讨论中小学教育的高端，精英教育的问题。但承认中小学教育的低端，普通公校教育也存在问题。其实，普通公校的问题更严重。
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