The Grattan Institute, an independent think-tank in Australia, asserts that the reporting of educational practices such as NAPLAN results could help understand the mechanism that contributes to student outcomes in high-performing school systems.
On the contrary, some educational experts argue that the quantitative approach in education can harm students’ improvement of soft skills, and also put emphasis on encouraging young people to explore what they are interested in, learning through inquiry and problem-based curriculum.
In this episode, it is put forward that the difficulty in providing education is caused by the issue of priortising quality or quantity in educational outcomes, as it is believed that materialistic reasoning cannot outweigh the aim of education which is to raise a sound human being.
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Ms Sumin Lee is a regular contributor to SBS Korean Program in charge of ‘Education Anatomy’. Source: SBS Korean
