Sentences with phrase «secondary school accountability measures»

Information for schools about secondary school accountability measures, including Progress 8 and Attainment 8.

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On top of the 60 per cent pass rate for GCSEs, Morgan explained the new «Progress 8» accountability measure for secondary school's, which is designed to show a child's progress from primary to secondary education.

It explicitly states that secondary schools are adapting their curricula to match changing accountability measures.

Accountability measures have had a considerable impact on the way curriculum time is allocated to different subjects in secondary schools, as well as on GCSE entries.

At primary level the definition will apply to those schools who for the first 2 years have seen fewer than 85 % of children achieving level 4, the secondary - ready standard, in reading, writing and maths, and which have also seen below - average proportions of pupils making expected progress between age 7 and age 11, followed by a year below a «coasting» level set against the new accountability regime which will see children being expected to achieve a new higher expected standard and schools being measured against a new measure of progress.

While it could be argued it is based around a curriculum (including its range of «academic» GCSEs) that is not necessarily suited to all students at secondary moderns, the fact it takes into account the starting point for students in a school means it marks an extremely welcome step towards a much more meaningful accountability measure.

One measure to which I would give priority is for children throughout Africa, from the first grade of primary school through the last year of secondary school, to be taught the values of justice, fairness, and accountability as part of the normal curriculum, so they might grow into the leaders and citizens that Africa needs.