The nation’s classrooms have been ranked as among the most disruptive in the world in the latest international report card on Australian schools, with a third of all students saying they do not listen to the teacher in most lessons.
More than 40 per cent of the 13,437 Australian students surveyed as part of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) said there was “noise and disorder” in their mathematics classes all or most of the time.
Almost a third said the teacher had to wait a long time for students to quiet down, with 9.4 per cent saying it occurred in every single lesson, and 20.3 per cent in most classes.
Australia ranked 71 out of 81 nations surveyed when it came to classroom discipline. The position at the bottom of the table mirrors similar findings when the tests were last conducted.
Australia’s classrooms were less disruptive than nine other nations surveyed, including Chile, Bulgaria, New Zealand and Brazil.
The responses of 690,000 students to seven statements were used to create the international index.
Greg Ashman, a deputy principal of a Victorian school and author of several books on teaching, said there was a reluctance in Australia to recognise classroom disruption as a problem.
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