Tuesday 3 May 2011

Lies, damn lies and statistics

I have absolutely no idea why everyone seems surprised by the revelation that education organisations focus the majority of their resources on hitting the targets against which they are measured.
If you say you will judge someone against a measure, they will focus on this measure, until you change the measure and they will focus on the new measure. That's why when the Government says that the Ebacc is not an accountability measure, just something they look at as part of a basket of measures, don't believe them!
What happened to the School Report Card that was talked about just a year or two ago which had a range of measures that were focussed on all areas of the achievement spectrum including Functional Skills - perhaps this should be re-visited?



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