The ASG Parents Report Card investigates the state of education in Australia from parents’ perspectives.

The ASG Parents Report Card measured parents’ perceptions of the state of education in the two countries using three indexes: the Aspirations Index; the Educational Resources Index, and the Learning Resources Index.

Undertaken by ASG and the Faculty of Education at Monash University, the report reveals parental aspirations are the strongest factor in their child achieving academic success

Other key findings include:

• Parents want to better understand the school curriculum and teaching methods, but are generally positive about the quality of teaching.
• Parents generally hold teachers in high regard, with most agreeing their children’s teachers are very capable.

• Australian parents’ perceptions of their child’s knowledge and skills are the largest predictor of all NAPLAN scores; indicating that parents are fundamentally concerned about their children’s subject knowledge and ability to apply it in a test situation like NAPLAN.