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Lee, Claire – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2019
In 2012, head teachers responded to the proposed new Year 6 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling test (commonly known as the SPaG or GPS test) with warnings of curriculum narrowing, teaching to tests, and misery for pupils and families. Despite head teachers' opposition to the test, seven cohorts of Year 6 pupils have now taken it. This article…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Language Tests, English Instruction, Grammar
Hodgson, John – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2017
Originally an editorial for "English in Education," this short article summarises key issues in the imposition of a separate test for grammar, punctuation and spelling. It illustrates the poor foundations, lack of clarity and distortion of curriculum which invalidate the test.
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Student Evaluation, Language Tests, Grammar
Wilson, Ros – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2017
This article demonstrates the distortions arising from attempts to impose a rigid set of criteria on teacher assessment. The use of surface features of syntax and punctuation to determine grades created a situation where children's writing became artificial and lacking in interest.
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Syntax
Richmond, John – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2017
This article critiques the current arrangements for the assessment and testing of English in early-years settings and primary schools in England. It is broadly supportive of the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile. It is highly critical of the Year 1 phonics check, and of the tests of reading and of grammar, punctuation and spelling at the end of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Testing, Early Childhood Education