Pass Rates by Bucks LA Schools

[Lillie]

It's a bit disappointing how few of the Bucks primaries make that list. And as for correlation with 11 plus results, it really doesn't make any sense at all. Maybe it shows us how irrelevant league tables are.

[Guest55]

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More headlines ... I thought we had interim results for 2015 i.e. two years worth of data.

It's a wonder he isn't giddy given the spin on this.

[pippi]

He said there’s no such thing as a ‘tutor proof’ test, but the new ones are ‘less susceptible to the impact of specific test tutoring’.

Probably right.. and that's part of the problem. A test that needs more general "tutoring" is more indicative of a child's background. The great "vocabulary can't be tutored" theory... Why is getting rid of this test a step too far? What would it actually take?

But he said a single year’s data should not be used to make claims about how the test disadvantages poorer children.

So it's going to get better once the tutoring has had time to bed in? And fine to have claimed the opposite:

Philip Wayne, headteacher at Chesham grammar school and chairman of the Bucks Grammar School Heads Association, has welcomed the changes and says he is "very confident" that the new test will avoid the current situation, in which many pupils who won places at his school with the help of intensive tutoring struggle to keep up with lessons once they arrive.