FRANCE:The French have developed reliable methods for assessing pupils, teachers and schools, but do not use the information to improve education, a study says.
As well as exams, pupil evaluation includes “diagnostic” tests in class that monitor progress during schooling. In his report, Strengths and weaknesses in evaluation of the French education system, former chief education officer Claude Pair said these tests were “the most systematic, clearest and most easily comparable” assessments, but “they are not used to make (the system) progress”. Likewise, parents avidly follow lycee “league tables”, published for the past eight years, but these are not used to improve under-performing schools. Full story: www.tes.co.uk
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