To wonder how a Government can publish a SATs paper by accident, twice??

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Now it's the year 6 SPAG test

The whole testing has been appallingly badly handled and it's our kids who are in the middle of it!

Believe me I have no other agenda than to worry for my dd who is being put through tests that have been rushed and I'll conceived.

I am a secondary school teacher who pays some notice to SATs scores in the early stages of year 7 but no more, after I have got to know my students.

If the Government had not rushed the introduction of a new curriculum at every stage of education there would be more time to ensure that mistakes such as these did not happen. Why would you publish the test paper to markers before the date of sitting? Papers need to be packaged up and sent out, so markers would need nothing until the weekend. the BBC site states this as an error by Pearson's! employed by the Government.

Ffs read your own thread. It was NOT a mistake. It was a Pearson employee who leaked it purposely. NOT a Government employee. Fortunately they don't every single public sector employee in the country.

Implying it's Nicky Morgan's fault is the same as saying the snotty GP receptionist forgetting to arrange your appointment is Jeremy Hunt's fault.

As a teacher you should be reasonably well educated - why do you not understand these basics?

You should pop over to the other thread on this btw OP - someone there wants the sabotager to be jailed.

Thing is titchy, the Government contracted Pearson to administer the tests so they are responsible and seem to be accepting this:

'An official DfE spokesperson said: “We are aware that Pearson, the external marking supplier responsible for key stage 2 tests, published the key stage 2 grammar, punctuation and spelling test on its secure marker site, for a short period of time. We are urgently investigating this breach.'

(Source: www.theguardian.com/education/2016/may/10/sats-tests-go-ahead-despite-leak-education-department)

Is that how it's going to go down when all have been forced one way or another to be academies? Education is crap. Oh no, it's got nothing to do with us, we just outsource this stuff.

If you are responsible for doing something and decide to delegate it, you are still responsible for making sure it gets done properly.

Nice try Titchy but I think you'll find that beyond the headlines it says this, and I quote:

'The Sats answers had been mistakenly published on Monday on a password-protected website for test markers, schools minister Nick Gibb told MPs.
He said an individual then tried to leak them to a journalist but it appeared they had not become public.'

I draw your particular attention to the words 'mistakenly published'
I have read my own thread and but don't find I need to agree with everyone's analysis of today's events.

As a teacher (love that bit!!) I do know how seriously a breach of security, mistake or deliberate, would be considered from any exam board. For the sake of keeping GCSE and A level exams robust, it would be the people at the top help ultimately accountable.

I stand by my statement that the way all these changes have been rushed in (I remember when new courses would have a three to five year run in to allow for support materials/texts and lesson schemes to be embedded) had contributed to mistakes

The individual leaking them is only whistle blowing an error! The paper should never have been there for anyone to find. Frankly they're lucky it wasn't all over social media.

Pull the other one.

Trying to leak a test paper to a journalist would come under a very loose definition of whistleblowing. And not one that's likely to stand up in court.

Who should they have highlighted the breach to then Rafals?