Performance group

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In Austria there are three different ability groups for the main subjects that are taught at secondary schools . This is stipulated in the federal law on the order of instruction and upbringing in the schools regulated in the School Organization Act (School Teaching Act - SchUG).

General

After attending an elementary school , students can choose between two types of school. One of them is the secondary school. These provide the students with a basic general education and provide them with the knowledge they need to transfer to an upper secondary school. Attending secondary school lasts four years (levels 5 to 8). Students in the 1st performance group can switch to the general secondary school (AHS). The Hauptschule does not offer its own degree.

The first can be regarded as the best ability group, whereby the level of difficulty of the lesson decreases with increasing ability group number (ie nothing else: 1. L group → “highest” claim, 3. L group → “lowest” claim ). If the grade level of a student exceeds or falls below a certain limit during the main school period, he will be graded higher or lower according to his performance. The pupils are divided into performance groups in the three “main subjects ” German , mathematics and English , whereby the lessons in the first performance group correspond to the level of a grammar school. These classifications emerged in the 1980s and replaced the previous division into class trains .

Classification and reclassification

The grading of the students into the performance groups takes place after a given observation period, which serves to assess the individual performance and learning ability of the student. On the basis of his or her participation in the class, it should be determined whether the student meets the requirements of the respective ability group. The classification is carried out by a teachers' conference of those teachers who will give lessons in the performance groups of the relevant compulsory subjects. The student is to be classified in the ability group that most closely matches his abilities. A student should be placed in the next higher ability group if, based on their previous performance, it can be expected that they will probably meet the requirements in the next higher ability group. If, on the other hand, it turns out that the student's performance assessment is recognized as “insufficient” in the course of a school year, they should be classified in the next lower performance group. If a subject is taught in performance groups, a note on the performance group attended will be entered at the end of the semester for the assessment grade. If at the end of the first semester there is a transfer to a different ability group, the new ability group will also be specified.

literature

  • Austria, Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts (publisher): Compulsory schooling, admission requirements, transfer opportunities (=  information sheets on school law . Part 1). J&V., Vienna 1994, OCLC 634088967 , 7.3. Classification in performance groups , p. 33 ff . ( bmb.gv.at [PDF]).
  • Michael Bruneforth: National Education Report Austria 2012 . Ed .: Federal Institute BIFIE. 1st edition. tape 1 : The school system as reflected in data and indicators . Leykam, Graz 2012, ISBN 978-3-7011-7854-4 , p. 78-80 ( books.google.de ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entire legal regulation for the School Education Act. on ris.bka.gv.at, accessed on November 18, 2016.
  2. ^ Austria - School System - Primary and Secondary Level I. (PDF, pp. 1–2) eurorai.org, accessed on November 18, 2016.
  3. ↑ § 31b SchUG (School Education Act), classification in the performance groups. JUSLINE GmbH, accessed on November 18, 2016 .
  4. ↑ School Education Act § 31c. ris.bka.gv.at, accessed on November 18, 2016 .
  5. ↑ School Education Act, Section 19.ris.bka.gv.at, accessed on November 18, 2016 .