Psychometric tests just turn us psycho

14th January 2011, 12:00am

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Psychometric tests just turn us psycho

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The introduction of psychometric tests for trainee teachers (“Psychometric tests for all trainees”, January 7) may well lead to a profession full of people with “good” personality traits.

Will this, in turn, lead to jibes about the “bog-standard” teacher and calls for more diversity in the system that lauds diversity and choice and maintains that one size does not fit all?

Tony Mills, Semi-retired teacher, Eaglescliffe, Stockton-on-Tees.

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