Last year, Schools Week revealed how school network partnership PiXL encouraged the use of obscure qualifications to boost pupil attainment and
headline performance measures.
Not exact matches
At the LSE event, most of the panellists argued that a degree of indicator continuity is essential to
measure government
performance or to track
headline public spending numbers.
The report, part of a book of essays entitled «The Future of Assessment: 2025 and Beyond», suggests that current trends in the education sector are «narrowing the curriculum and focusing on those students whose
performance has the greatest impact on the
headline accountability
measures».
Grade 5 and above is recognised as a «strong pass» — this will be one of the
headline measures of school
performance.
Since school spending per pupil has been relatively stable in real terms for the last seven years, allocating extra curriculum time and resources to teaching EBacc subjects may have often implied diverting them from non-EBacc subjects that offer less benefit in terms of school
performance, as evaluated by the new
headline measures.
By using
performance metrics that actually
measure academic achievement and cost - effectiveness and by observing student outcomes, the documentary shows clearly that a
headline «87 percent of students earn high school diploma, «even though correct, should be rewritten «given high school diploma»: