Provisional primary school Sats results to be released as scheduled
August 2, 2008
The government has decided to release provisional primary school Sats results next week for England as scheduled. The Schools Secretary, Ed Balls, stated his statisticians felt publication should take place in spite of ‘continuing issues regarding completing marking”.
The government’s decision of publishing the provisional results next week ‘beggars belief’, head teachers have stated. They caution that there are widespread concerns about late as well as missing results, and also the quality of marking. The National Association of Head Teachers states ministers are prematurely issuing the results.
According to the latest figures from Educational Testing Service (ETS), the contractor entrusted with the job of marking the tests, 99 per cent of Key Stage 2 results ‘are now made available to schools.’ It is not clear how many schools are still awaiting a complete set of marks. Head teachers also warned of many pupils wrongly marked absent.
The QCA testing authority states that it is ‘deeply concerned’ by the failure to return results on part of its contractor, ETS. However, the independent watchdog Ofqual has stated that there is no specific evidence of any widespread problem with the ‘quality of the marks’.
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SATS are a load of bollocks. They make a mockery of the wonderful and wide experiences children should have at primary school.
ongoing teacher assessment is much more accurate and valuable. I can’t believe some idiot has sanctioned single level testing - this means every yr will be focussed on wretched sats….our education system is the saddest in the world.