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Will we return to "contextual value added" in the league tables?
Fans, amateur players, enthusiasts, television audiences, and ticket buyers are all complicit in the contextual value system here.
I hope that the use of contextual value added [by which social factors are included to measure school performance] and progress measures are retained.
If your child is less able, then it's worth checking the school's contextual value added score, which measures how much children improve (or don't).
Strand therefore calls for the reinstatement of an additional accountability measure, known as contextual value added, introduced by Labour but scrapped by the coalition in 2010.
And it's working effectively enough to propel the school into the top 5% nationally in the contextual value added table, which takes account of students' starting point.
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The government was right to drop the "contextual value-added" measure, introduced by Labour five years ago, from this week's league tables, he says.
Penman, in his "top tips" for finding a good school, suggests that parents check the school's contextual value-added score "which measures how much children improve".
Its contextual value-added score (which takes account of deprivation and prior attainment) will appear in the league tables as above 1070, one of the highest in the country.
The attempt in the 1998 Education Act to produce more sophisticated tables by the inclusion of "contextual value-added" criteria was well-meaning but had only limited impact on public perceptions of "good schools".
The reason is that unlike the previous contextual value-added measure used under the last Labour government, Progress 8 compares pupil performance with a national picture, rather than matching schools with similar intakes.
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