That change resulted in about 60percentt of the students' passing the December test, rather than 27percentt.
"It's the same problem as with league tables and targets, which encourage teaching to the test rather than learning.
The editor of the Health Service Journal, Alastair McLellan, notes that the report suggests a "fit and proper person test" rather than regulation of NHS managers.
Some examiners are giving detailed advice so that schools can focus on teaching to the test rather than covering the entire syllabus, an investigation had found.
Each paragraph was numbered, as it would be if the story were encountered during a standardized test, rather than pulled from a library shelf.
"We're going to see if there is a willingness to look at a means test, rather than looking at incomes plus rent level".
But "the state is on the right track," Dr. Sherman said, by adding portfolios and projects to the test rather than just looking at standardized test scores.
Most patients appear relieved, he said, that doctors now treat the H.I.V. test more like any other medical test rather than a life-shaking decision.
He acknowledged that some of them wound up taking the "fastest, cheapest, easiest way to get there," teaching to the test rather than for it.
The academic also found evidence that the focus on exams by the Government was leading to teachers "teaching the test" rather than giving a broader education.
There is ample evidence for how damaging a single-score measure can become when classroom instruction is organized around doing well on a standardized test rather than on learning content, concepts and skills.
