IMPORTANT: Posting specific test information.
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 2:44 pm
Please note the following:
There will be more children sitting the October 2010 test in the next few weeks. The LEA are legally obliged to allow children to sit the test up until the age of 12 (should they move into the area etc).
It is extremely unlikely that children who have sat the test will have remembered many/any of the questions with any kind of accuracy; however it is worth knowing that the test is still to be taken by some.
Research has been done to analyse the effects of taking the test at a more 'mature' age and the analysis has concluded that there is no advantage to delaying as the scores are standardised based upon age.
I have no wish for this to downward spiral into the rights or wrongs of allowing children to take a late test. For this reason I shall now lock this thread.
There will be more children sitting the October 2010 test in the next few weeks. The LEA are legally obliged to allow children to sit the test up until the age of 12 (should they move into the area etc).
It is extremely unlikely that children who have sat the test will have remembered many/any of the questions with any kind of accuracy; however it is worth knowing that the test is still to be taken by some.
Research has been done to analyse the effects of taking the test at a more 'mature' age and the analysis has concluded that there is no advantage to delaying as the scores are standardised based upon age.
I have no wish for this to downward spiral into the rights or wrongs of allowing children to take a late test. For this reason I shall now lock this thread.