Poorer students disadvantaged this summer?

[kilbride65]

Reading about the highly likely scenario from experts that poorer/minority students are due to be further disadvantaged with this years calculated grades system compared to children from middle class families, especially private school students.

Thoughts?

Undoubtedly yes. Year nine and ten in particular.

Teacher assessment is, unfortunately, biased against poorer and ethnic minority students but we know this, and therefore attempts will be made to mitigate the impact.

I saw a suggestion on twitter that the National Reference Tests sat by a sample of schools, luckily just before this all kicked off, could be used to check teacher predictions against NRT results to assess the scale of the problem.

People who bang on about teacher assessment being better/fairer than exams always neglect to mention this issue (or think it isn’t important).

That would be fantastic but what if they highly able students were chosen for the NRT?

Yes true and also the Year 11’s and 13’s hoping to move on to further ed.

I think the exam boards factoring in SAT results with teacher predictions will give an advantage to kids who were highly tutored for 11+. SATs were a long time ago and at secondary school the hard work of the child with revision/homework comes into play more.

The National Reference Test sample is designed to be a fair cross-section of the student population - it was set up to replace KS2 results as the way to decide the relative ability of a cohort relative to previous years. They have now got 4 year’s worth of data to compare actual ability in March Y11 versus KS2 SATs results so I imagine there’s a lot of scrutiny of that going on at the moment.

Thank you very much for that insight, good to know and hopefully will help them be fair to all.

Yes - likely they will be disadvantaged - explained clearly and rationally on this podcast. There is no answer that will be fair to all.
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