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Headline: Concerns over Sats raised
Description: Following the debate surrounding the ability of GCSEs and A-levels to sufficiently stretch the top candidates, primary school tests are to come under the spotlight.

There are increasing worries that standards in exams are slipping, with some claiming that the pressure to improve grades is leading to the tests becoming easier.

And now the focus is being put on the Sats tests for 11-year-olds, where fears are mounting that grades will be well below government targets.

Despite insistences from ministers that standards are "rising" in primaries across the country, improvements appeared to reach a plateau after 2000, and it is thought likely that such a trend will continue.

Research carried out by Professor Colin Richards and published by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) has questioned the progress being made by the testing regime.

He claims that there is no readily available evidence to show how far national standards are reflected in the tests sat by pupils.

However, a spokeswoman for the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) has defended the policy of testing youngsters, suggesting that independent research has consistently shown that test standards are being maintained.

She added: "This is why we have an independent test and exams regulator, the QCA, to ensure the maintenance of standards year on year."

Date: 10.09.2005
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