1. Primary School
Andrew Gill has written an excellent paper on this- "The School Class Allocation Problem"
He introduces the problem - "Friendship groups are an important element in both the social and academic well-being of school students, particularly in their younger years. Each year, school management has to assign students to a particular class in their new grade in junior school, and in doing so make and break friendship preferences as other criteria need to be satisfied in order to ensure diversity. This ongoing administrative task is time consuming and does not always result in the most equitable allocation. Coupled with the lack of transparency of the process, this can lead to teacher and parent frustration."
Andrew has developed an algorithm which greatly improves the efficiency of this process and he shows the results of this in his paper.
He introduces the problem - "Friendship groups are an important element in both the social and academic well-being of school students, particularly in their younger years. Each year, school management has to assign students to a particular class in their new grade in junior school, and in doing so make and break friendship preferences as other criteria need to be satisfied in order to ensure diversity. This ongoing administrative task is time consuming and does not always result in the most equitable allocation. Coupled with the lack of transparency of the process, this can lead to teacher and parent frustration."
Andrew has developed an algorithm which greatly improves the efficiency of this process and he shows the results of this in his paper.
2. Junior High School
Junior High Schools also use the "Primary School" approach, mentioned above, but also add the extra constraint of subject choice. Often, in Australian schools the key subjects are the languages (Italian, Japanese, French, German and Chinese) and ability groupings in Maths and English.
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