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Headline: Teachers ignore flexible testing
Description: Flexible testing has not made an impact in all schools
Many teachers in England are still using the same testing regime for seven-year-olds despite a relaxation in the test guidelines, a report suggests.

Schools no longer have to report the results of tests, just use them as a basis for teacher assessment.

A report by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority said most teachers were still using the same tests and at the same time in the summer term.

Seven-year-olds are assessed in English and maths at Key Stage 1.

Flexibility

The new assessment arrangements allow teachers to test children at any point between January and the end of the summer term.

They still sit national curriculum tests (often known as Sats) but teachers may use their own tests on which to base their assessment.

Teachers use the test results to assess a child's level, which is reported to parents at the end of the school year.

The arrangements were piloted in 5,000 schools in 2004 and made available across England this year.

The pilot study showed that teacher assessment with a more flexible test was more accurate than raw test results.

The trial also found that "the new arrangements offer a system which is at least as robust", according to the QCA's follow-up report.

The new system was welcomed by most teaching unions.

But teachers of Year 2 pupils were still more likely to use tests for reading, writing and mathematics in the summer term, the report said.

Appropriate timing

The work was carried out by the National Foundation for Educational Research.

It said most teachers were confident enough to make judgements about pupils' progress, but there was a wide variation in the amount of work they kept in support of their assessments.

It sent questionnaires to head teachers, junior school head teachers and teachers of Year 2 pupils, including schools which had taken part in the pilot.

It found that head teachers of junior schools (pupils aged from seven to 11) were more likely to test Year 3 pupils who arrived from other infant schools than were primary schools, which take pupils from their own infant years.

Ken Boston, QCA chief executive, said: "The new arrangements offer a wide range of formative options for educators and I am confident that the new arrangements for seven-year-olds will have a significant impact on the way children are assessed".

A spokesperson for the National Union of Teachers said teachers would always choose to test at the most appropriate time for the pupils.

If they tested earlier in the year pupils would have had less time to cover in depth the subjects tested.

But she said the new system was beneficial to teachers, who could choose the exact time that suited them and come to their own judgements on a child's attainment level.


Date: 27.11.2005
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