mikem8634 Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Maybe you should learn to read as well as your fellow O level failiures? Failures? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sibon Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Failures? Insurance salesmen with multiple personalities always find spelling difficult. Crookesey is no exception. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spilldig Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 I think what he probably meant RosyRat was that they couldn't spell correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puisseguin Posted November 22, 2012 Author Share Posted November 22, 2012 How did they set their expectations? I would imagine that the expectations are that folk of 15 should be able to read as well as 15 year olds were able to in past generations. Really, why, what are they actually doing at school for 11 years? I expect that is what has dismayed those doing the analysis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RosyRat Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 I think what he probably meant RosyRat was that they couldn't spell correctly. Thanks, Spilldig. That does make sense. Though if that were a criterion for getting a job, two-thirds of SF members would be unemployed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 I would imagine that the expectations are that folk of 15 should be able to read as well as 15 year olds were able to in past generations. Perhaps, but I'd rather know than guess. I expect that is what has dismayed those doing the analysis. Or perhaps it helps to sell software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puisseguin Posted November 22, 2012 Author Share Posted November 22, 2012 Perhaps, but I'd rather know than guess. . So how would you imagine that the experts assess someones reading age? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sibon Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 So how would you imagine that the experts assess someones reading age? They generally use a variety of supposedly standardised tests, which tend to give variable results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puisseguin Posted November 22, 2012 Author Share Posted November 22, 2012 They generally use a variety of supposedly standardised tests, which tend to give variable results. In that case would you be worried if your child of 16 was assessed as having a reading age of 11 and told he/she was having difficulty reading the GCSE exam papers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sibon Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 In that case would you be worried if your child of 16 was assessed as having a reading age of 11 and told he/she was having difficulty reading the GCSE exam papers? That isn't really what the survey is saying though. It says that some pupils have a reading age of 10, or 11. Not all of them. Don't forget that in the supposed golden age of the 1970s, many students didn't sit formal exams at all. Those students would have been the ones with the low reading ages. Nowadays, eveybody takes a version of the same exam. Some of them find it difficult to read the paper. No surprise there, really. Of course, it suits the owners of Renaissance Learning to paint this as an issue of falling standards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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