Summary
PARENTS of pupils who are due to sit "Sats" next term, the national curriculum key stage tests for 11 and 14-year-olds, may sympathise with today's call from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) to scrap the examinations.
Aside from the pressure on pupils, there is evidence that some schools "teach to the test", preparing children specifically to get through their Sats, rather than giving them the wider maths and English competence they need. However, this is a criticism that could be made of any system of testing. It should be met by designing tests that correspond more precisely to the skills pupils need for the next educational stage and for employment, not by abandoning the system altogether.See the full content of this document
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Keep the Sats
Sats provide a reasonably objective measure of how p...
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