Transcript for What is the Data Collection
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The Data Collection
[Bronwyn Hamilton]
I’m Bronwyn Hamilton, Principal of Carwatha College P-12, located in Noble Park North.
There are a number of benefits for our school in undertaking the data collection, one of the main ones probably was building our teacher capacity to really understand where there are students with disabilities, that they don’t necessarily fit the model of the program of students with disabilities where there is funding for students and perhaps particular support but there are many other students that may have a disability that are in every classroom and its helped our teachers to understand that and build their capacity too, therefore adjust their learning for their students or their teaching for their students to cater better for their individual needs. And it helped us to clarify the needs of our own students in a more formal way and therefore catered better for their needs.
What is the Data Collection?
[Richard Sunderland]
My name is Richard Sunderland and I am from the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.
So the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability or the Data Collectionis an annual count of students in all Australian Schools who have a disability and as a result of that disability their school is required to make adjustments to support their ability to participate in their education and to learn alongside their peers.
What is the purpose of the Data Collection?
[Richard Sunderland]
Our department along with every state and jurisdiction department is requesting that every school in the country undertakes the Data Collection so that every state and territory and the Commonwealth government have a clear picture of the number of students with disability in our schools who require adjustments, where those students are and the level of adjustment, the level of support really that they need within their school to be able to participate along with their peers in their learning.