Exams for 11-year-olds in England will be changed to prevent teachers drilling pupils to pass and to create greater fairness
National tests for 11-year-olds in England will be changed to stop teachers drilling pupils, a government review is expected to say.
Lord Bew, a crossbench peer and politics professor, was asked to review the tests – known as Sats – after a quarter of primary schools boycotted them last year.
He will recommend the reading test is changed "over time", and that schools are judged over three years' of results rather than one and given a rolling average in league tables. He will also say the creative writing element of the English test should be assessed by class teachers rather than external markers.
Some parts of the tests will not change, however. The maths, reading, spelling, vocabulary and punctuation tests will continue to be externally assessed, while the speaking and listening elements will still be marked internally.
A small proportion of pupils – 5% – will sit a science test to monitor standards.
Two teaching unions have called for the tests to be scrapped.
Sats results go towards school league tables and unions say this forces teachers to spend the whole final year of primary school cramming pupils for the tests rather than providing a rounded education.
Bew told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the changes would lead to "greater fairness" and better accountability.
"Hundreds of thousands of children take these exams," he said. "If things go wrong, the evidence is that this is very, very hard to repair later on."
The tests were abolished in Wales and Northern Ireland and never taken in Scotland.
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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/jun/23/sats-tests-must-improve-review
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