Parents back more public information on schools [IrishExaminer]
- Published: 04 October 2010
PARENTS strongly favour a wider range of information about their children’s schools being available to the public, academic research has found.
Less than half of people with children still at school or college think primary schools give parents enough information on the schools’ performance, falling to just over two-in-five parents responding to the same question about second-level schools.
Only half of those surveyed believed schools give parents enough information about how their children are doing, although improved reporting guidelines have been offered to schools since the research was carried out.
While there is stronger support for more information about second-level schools, the strongest support was for comparisons between schools to take account of the resources that are available to them. This idea was favoured by 87% of more than 1,500 people aged 15 or older who took part in the study by Thomas Kellaghan and Michael Daly, published in the latest volume of the Irish Journal of Education.
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Only half of those surveyed believed schools give parents enough information about how their children are doing, although improved reporting guidelines have been offered to schools since the research was carried out.
While there is stronger support for more information about second-level schools, the strongest support was for comparisons between schools to take account of the resources that are available to them. This idea was favoured by 87% of more than 1,500 people aged 15 or older who took part in the study by Thomas Kellaghan and Michael Daly, published in the latest volume of the Irish Journal of Education.
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