"Teachers and school leaders doing the right thing will be forced to watch their reputation being trashed while a small minority of schools enhance their reputations by altering their students' results.

"The Rudd government's 'name and shame' policies will increasingly punish schools that do the right thing.

"While the overwhelming majority of teachers will resist the temptation to alter test scores, schools that cheat will add to the already substantial unreliability of the my school website.

"The longer this charade is allowed to run, the less meaning the website will have. Julia Gillard is putting enormous pressure on the profession to teach to the test and to alter scores.

"This is further evidence that the 'my school' circus will distort learning outcomes and fail to provide accountability and school improvement.

"Test cheating in Georgia and the massive discrepancy between school test results in New York state and national tests should sound very loud alarm bells for Education Ministers Julia Gillard and Verity Firth.

"Their name-and-shame policies are a poor substitute for supporting public schools," Dr Kaye said.