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Is it time for league tables to focus on pupils at 18?

TES article – Former DfE official questions GCSE performance measure.  Why are the results of GCSEs taken by 16-year-olds used to judge secondary schools when the compulsory age of education and training is due to be raised to 18?

Let’s not confuse better results with the raising of attainment

TES article – A strong focus on exams has led us to value what we can measure, rather than measure what we value.

Second language, first-class results

TES article – Pupils who speak English as an additional language (EAL) have achieved an academic breakthrough, with new figures showing that a higher proportion have gained five “good” GCSEs than their native English speaking counterparts for the first time. DfE – GCSE and Equivalent Attainment by Pupil Characteristics in England, 2010/11.

Annual Report of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales 2010-2011

Estyn – Annual Report of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education 2010-11, an overall assessment of standards and performance of schools, education and training providers in Wales. TES article – Welsh literacy levels still ‘shocking’.

Academy schools: Vocational equivalents ‘inflating results’

BBC News education – The “excessive” use of vocational equivalents is “inflating” the results of England’s academy schools, analysis of league table data suggests.

League tables receive a blow … from the right

TES article – Tory select committee chair hits out at performance measure.

When it comes to exams, we fail to see the big picture

TES Scotland – Commercial pressures and an unhealthy focus on attainment figures should tick us all off.

League-table culture neglects most pupils, say academics

TES Scotland – Secondary schools have been accused of going to extraordinary lengths to boost the grades of borderline pupils while neglecting the majority.

On your marks: Measuring the school readiness of children in low-to-middle income families

Resolution Foundation – Analysis of a cohort of children born in 2000 finds that, at the start of school, children from low to middle income families are five months behind children from higher income families in terms of vocabulary skills – an important measure of cognitive development – and have more behaviour problems. Resolution Foundation [...]