We help students to cheat, but how long before it's exposed?

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JIM CURRAN
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We help students to cheat, but how long before it's exposed?

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Secret Teacher: We help students to cheat, but how long before it's exposed?

On the first day of the school year the staffroom buzzes with nervous whispers. Everyone is eager to hear the big news about results. Is an Ofsted inspection imminent or are we safe in our jobs for another year? Thoughts whir as the senior management team present their annual analysis of assessment data.

But there is an enormous elephant in the room; most of the members of the audience know the data is false. This is because we know how much we help children cheat in the modular tests brought in to replace coursework.

Controlled assessments are not properly scrutinised by line managers and exam boards, a problem that gets worse every year. More and more teachers allow students to use extensive written notes when only limited prompts are allowed. In April I found students in the library “redrafting” controlled assessments for the sixth or seventh time when they should not be attempted more than once.
http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-netw ... ts-exposed
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Teachers play the system to hit league table and exam targets, says report

More than two-thirds of teachers have considered the performance of their school in league tables when choosing which subjects to offer pupils, an unpublished report from the exam regulator Ofqual reveals.

Four out of five have focused their efforts on borderline “C” students because the numbers of pupils gaining grades A-C are the key to success in such tables. And nearly two-thirds have sought out “easier” exam boards to achieve success, the report finds.

The findings are contained in a 47-page document prompted by evidence seen by Ofqual suggesting that teachers and schools were playing the system, and in some instances cheating to attain professional success
http://www.theguardian.com/education/20 ... ual-report
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Re: We help students to cheat, but how long before it's exposed?

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The Cheating Goes On

New York schools’ latest scandal is rooted in the failures of progressive education.
http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon0811ss.html
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