As all primary educators will know, SATs results were released yesterday, and most news outlets are headlining the positives of two-thirds of Year 6’s achieved their expected grades. Is two-thirds an acceptable amount? Thirty-three per cent failed to meet their grades, these year 6 children will have to be told that they have failed just as they are about to join their secondary school; by doing this, are we branding our students as failures?
School survey
A survey was taken for educators to take part via TES about SATs, of which fifty-eight per cent want them scrapped and twenty-five per cent want them reformed. Clearly something needs to be done here as our own teachers feel that the SATs are not effective and are detrimental towards students.
Are teachers distorting the curriculum to ensure their students get better results? Evidence has been released that show teachers testing their students to be able to answer twenty-five questions in a six second gap but without knowing the inverse of the question. Although helpful for the test, but is this beneficial in the long-term?
