A note on ‘ The limitations of school league tables to inform school choice ’
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In earlier work, we showed that, for any given year, England’s secondary school league tables poorly predict schools’ future performances.We generalize our prediction formula to calculate predictions based on multiple years of school league table data and show that this does very little to improve precision. This reinforces the conclusion of our earlier work: school league tables are unreliable and misleading guides for school choice and that this is still the case even if several years of school league table data are considered.
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school league tables to inform school choice
In England, so-called ‘league tables’ based upon examination results and test scores are published annually, ostensibly to inform parental choice of secondary schools. A crucial limitation of these tables is that the most recent published information is based on the current performance of a cohort of pupils who entered secondary schools several years earlier, whereas for choosing a school it is...
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