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Payment by results: Teachers’ work, remuneration, and student assessment

Victoria, 1863-1906

By Carole Hooper, TITC, BA, BEd, PhD, Independent scholar. Posted .

The performance-based system, known colloquially as ‘payment-by-results’, whereby teachers’ remuneration was partly determined by the success of their pupils at prescribed examinations, was introduced into Victorian government-aided schools in early1864. Although criticised by many throughout its 40-year existence, the system was not finally abolished until 1906, following the recommendation of a Royal Commission on Education (Fink).… Continue Reading »

Differentiated schooling

Australia and New Zealand, 1840-2000

By Craig Campbell, PhD DipEd, University of Sydney. Posted .

Different schools and different courses of instruction for different groups of students have existed throughout the history of schooling. It is only in relatively recent times, mainly from the mid-nineteenth century that common schools with a common curriculum developed, usually in public school systems.

In this entry, recent approaches to ‘differentiated teaching’ are not considered to any great degree.… Continue Reading »