Principals voice concerns over standardised tests [IrishExaminer]
- Published: 21 October 2011
THE testing of second-level students’ reading and maths ability should not be used for the wrong purposes, a schools’ leader has warned.
Patricia O’Brien, the president of the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals (NAPD), said there are concerns about the introduction of testing of students in second and fifth years, planned under the national literacy and numeracy strategy published in July.
Such tests are already used in primary schools, allowing teachers and principals to monitor standards.
Ms O’Brien said it is the interpretation of results that can cause most concern, as happened after Irish teenagers’ dwindling rankings in reading and maths emerged from the most recent international test results last year.
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