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DCSF Update Letter on National Curriculum Tests
Dated: 26/09/2008
DCSF Update Letter on National Curriculum Tests
Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, Ed Balls, has today written to the Chair of the Children, Schools and Families Select Committee, Barry Sheerman, to update him on developments in relation to National Curriculum tests.
A copy of his letter to Mr Sheerman follows below.
Barry Sheerman MP
Chairman of the Children, Schools and Families Select Committee
House of Commons
SW1A 0AA
26 September 2008
Dear Barry
In my statement to the House on 22 July I made a commitment to provide regular updates throughout the summer on progress with the marking and publication of national curriculum test results.
In my letter to you of 18 September I informed you that further increases had been seen in the results being made available to schools. Overall results available remain at 99.9% for KS2 and 99.7% for KS3. The National Assessment Agency (NAA) is continuing to work to ensure that outstanding pupils results are released, including through marking and data entry of scripts returned to them by schools. They are contacting all schools without complete results, prioritising those which are missing significant numbers of results.
NAA advise us that the first phase of marking reviews (that is those reviews submitted before the summer break) is nearing completion. Work on logging reviews submitted after the end of the summer term is ongoing. Schools have 10 working days from receiving all their results and marked scripts to request a review and are currently continuing to send scripts in for review. The number of requests is therefore changing daily and NAA will not be able to provide figures for the total number of review requests until all scripts have been received, logged and processed. Only once a complete set of data is available will it be possible to draw robust conclusions on the volume of reviews or the proportion of level changes. NAA will then conduct an analysis to make allowances for changes which do not relate to marking quality, such as the reporting of reading and writing reviews as separate components and the long-planned removal of borderlining.
I am copying this letter to the Speaker, and to Michael Gove MP and David Laws MP. I have also placed a copy in the libraries of both Houses.
Yours sincerely
ED BALLS MP
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