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An independent view of current educational direction

An independent view of current educational direction. Warwick Mansell. “The benefits of [high stakes national] assessment have been immense. The aspirations of pupils and their teachers have been raised.”

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An independent view of current educational direction

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  1. An independent view of current educational direction Warwick Mansell

  2. “The benefits of [high stakes national] assessment have been immense. The aspirations of pupils and their teachers have been raised.” Department for Children, Schools and Families, evidence to Children, Schools and Families Select Committee, 2007

  3. “The notion that ‘what is happening in a school’, the transactions, can be measured by what pupils learn is a simplistic one. It assumes that what is taught well is learned, that what is learned has necessarily been taught in school and that what is not learned has not been taught or not taught well.” Wynne Harlen, paper presented to BERA accountability symposium, 1978

  4. Coalition changes • Removing Labour’s non-GCSE equivalence system. • The Ebacc, amid more concerns about league table pressures. • Scrapping modular GCSEs. • “Democratising” results information and transparency. • More emphasis on results…

  5. “We are seeing a worrying increase in the numbers of students being entered early for GCSE mathematics, to the detriment of almost all students…The pressure on schools to improve their standing in the league tables provides an incentive to act in the school’s best interests rather than those of the individual students.” Dame Julia Higgins, ACME chair, May 2011

  6. “We will…explore how best to raise standards in coasting schools (ie introducing year-on-year improvement standards)” and “plans to trial arrangements to pay Sure Start children’s centres in part for the results they achieve”. Open Public Services white paper, July 2011.

  7. “Raising standards and narrowing gaps…are best achieved through ensuring that schools and teachers are free to set their own direction, trusted to exercise their professional discretion and accountable for the progress of children in their care.” Michael Gove, letter to Russell Hobby, September 2010

  8. “Strong evidence shows that external school-level accountability is important in driving up standards and pupils’ attainment and progress. The OECD has concluded that a ‘high stakes’ accountability system can raise pupil achievement in general and not just in those areas under scrutiny.” “Independent” [Bew] review of KS2 testing, final report, June 2011

  9. “Across school systems, there is no measurable relationship between [the] variable uses of assessment for accountability purposes and the performance of school systems”. PISA 2009 results: what makes a school successful. (Volume IV) December 2010

  10. “At the moment you have tests which are taken at the end of primary school… and one of the many concerns that people have is that that completely narrows teaching during the final year of primary school and all the focus is on drilling children just for those tests.” Michael Gove, on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show, June 2009.

  11. Reasons to be cheerful? The continuing need for good quality assessment…

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