The evolution of school league tables in England 1992-2016: 'contextual value-added’, ‘expected progress’ and ‘progress 8’
Journal article
Leckie, George and Goldstein, Harvey. (2017). The evolution of school league tables in England 1992-2016: 'contextual value-added’, ‘expected progress’ and ‘progress 8’. British Educational Research Journal. 43(2), pp. 193 - 212. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3264
Authors | Leckie, George and Goldstein, Harvey |
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Abstract | Since 1992, the UK Government has published so-called ‘school league tables’ summarising the average General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) ‘attainment’ and ‘progress’ made by pupils in each state-funded secondary school in England. While the headline measure of school attainment has remained the percentage of pupils achieving five or more good GCSEs, the headline measure of school progress has changed from ‘value-added’ (2002–2005) to ‘contextual valueadded’ (2006–2010) to ‘expected progress’ (2011–2015) to ‘progress 8’ (2016–). This paper charts this evolution with a critical eye. First, we describe the headline measures of school progress. Second, we question the Government’s justifications for scrapping contextual value-added. Third, we argue that the current expected progress measure suffers from fundamental design flaws. Fourth, we examine the stability of school rankings across contextual value-added and expected progress. Fifth, we discuss the extent to which progress 8 will address the weaknesses of expected progress. We conclude that all these progress measures and school league tables more generally should be viewed with far more scepticism and interpreted far more cautiously than they have often been to date |
Keywords | contextual value-added; expected progress; progress 8; school league tables |
Year | 2017 |
Journal | British Educational Research Journal |
Journal citation | 43 (2), pp. 193 - 212 |
Publisher | Blackwell Publishing Ltd |
ISSN | 0141-1926 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3264 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85017004776 |
Open access | Open access |
Page range | 193 - 212 |
Research Group | Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education (ILSTE) |
Publisher's version | License |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/8524x/the-evolution-of-school-league-tables-in-england-1992-2016-contextual-value-added-expected-progress-and-progress-8
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