Alan Smithers
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10 appearances
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1 series
first heard Apr 2011
last heard Apr 2011
Alan Smithers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We had a very low response rate in 2000 and we were almost excluded.
And among the people who were responding, there was a disproportion from independent schools and successful state schools.
2009, a much greater effort was put in to get schools to participate.
There were actually some financial rewards for participating.
Another factor is that the
tests really aren't that very important to schools.
No special effort has gone into doing well in the PISA tests.
On the other hand the national tests are extremely important to schools and so on our national tests the scores have gone up and up but in PISA our scores haven't changed that much.
And then there were 32 countries tested in 2000, there were 65 tested
in 2009 so we're not really comparing like with like and the government is presenting an over simple message which actually fits in with the narrative enabling it to do what it wants to do now i'm just using the data as one thing but what if the pisa data itself is flawed i see so this is the denmark thing is this is this where i get to make a joke about something being rotten in the state of denmark
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