Headteachers raise results data concerns

HEADTEACHERS are set to raise concerns that test and exam results can be manipulated by politicians to suit their own agenda.

There must be no possibility that governments and public bodies can influence grade boundaries to support their own policies, the National Association of Head Teachers is expected to warn.

Delegates at the union’s annual conference are due to debate a motion calling on its executive to “expose and discredit the statistical and politically-motivated manipulation of test and grade boundaries” and highlight the “harmful and unjust implications” this can have of students and teachers.

Proposer Graham Frost said: “We want to remove any possibility of government agencies manipulating school performance data.”