More primary school test results quashed due to 'cheating'
Almost 600 primary school pupils had test results cancelled or downgraded last year because of cheating in the exams hall and mistakes by teachers, according to an official report.
Oh dear!The overall rise in maladministration was partly down to an increase in the number of phonics test cases reported, the STA suggested.
I urge teachers to be as objective as they can be when it comes to standardised and national tests.
Just try to be the best teachers you can be - and then console yourself to the fact that pupils in all the schools take the same tests - you just have to be scientific and 'up for it' whatever the results.
Then, look at the results in your own context to consider whether they could have been better, whether they are reflective of the stage of learning of the children - and of their home and school experiences.
We know for a fact that good quality teaching makes a difference to children. We just have to use test results to know how we are doing in the scale of the bigger picture - and by comparing the results of similar schools in similar contexts.