Indicating quality – or not?

There is very little difference between old performance measures and the new ones, writes Marcia Devlin. Except in one very important area.

And so, round two of the national "debate" about teaching quality is on. The federal government teaching indicators paper is out; senior executive across the country are pouring over it; discussion seminars on the proposed measures are in full swing (in Melbourne at least); blogs are alive with comment; institutional and other responses are being drafted and circulated. But what, exactly, are we debating? Round one involved the conception, gestation, birth and limited development of the Learning and Teaching Performance Fund (LTPF), announced in 2003, by the then Howard government minister...