raising standards

Question 1

The educational reform act

Answer 1

• conservative party
• **new right **
• brought in a range of policies with the aim of raising standards of education:

1. national curriculum
2. SATs
3. League tables
4. Ofsted

Question 2

national curriculum

Answer 2

• offered a standardised education for all students with the aim of raising standards
• ensuring a certain level of education was accessed

Question 3

SATs

Answer 3

• aimed to raise standards for all students
• acted as a way of assessing quality of education delivered to students
• tracked their progress to ensure and test that they are working at a specifc level

Question 4

league tables

Answer 4

• raised competition between schools and colleges and therefore standards were raised
• created competition to ‘be the best’

Question 5

Ofsted

Answer 5

• quality assurance body created to check level of education was suitable in schools through details and rigorous insepections
• reports then published for parents to read

Question 6

Curriculum 2000

Answer 6

• Labour party
• **Social democratic **
• A level was introduced which was a modular curriculum which required candidates to take modules as they proceeded through the course
• Split A levels, which provided opportunities to take a broader curriculum and able to see an increase in the working classes reaching and achieveing in post-16 meaning the *aim was to raise standards for everyone *
• this more flexible, broken up process of studying was designed to make workload less stressful and allows students to** understand content in more depth, therefore increasing standards of education **

Question 7

**Adaptation of academies **

Answer 7

• coalition (labour and conservative)
• 2010
• proposal to convert schools into academies
• this was with the aim to raise standards as institutions strived towards this
• becoming an academy places funding into the government and local sponsors are ecnouraged to provide aditional funding and schools can become part of an multi academy trust in which several schools create resources and share good prative
• this allows schools more autonomy and control to push for the highest standards

Question 8

**adaptation of academies **

Answer 8

• conservative party
• new right
• assessments are now done by exam with other types of assessment used only where they are needed to test essential skills
• assessments taken at the end of the course and will no longer be divided into modules.
• aim of raising standards for pupils by assessing more rigorously fousing on the application of knowledge in exams