Last night, Reporting Scotland‘s Andrew Kerr, cast doubt on the evidence of attainment increases and gaps narrowing in Scotland’s schools because an ‘expert’ said it was comparable to ‘teachers marking their own homework.’
I guessed straightaway in was the above regular SNP critic. Here’s why:
National Improvement Framework: Consultation on measuring the attainment gap and milestones towards closing it Submission by Lindsay Paterson1
4. Why using teacher judgements is unreliable
https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/files/134464725/submission_by_Lindsay_Paterson.pdf
And:
Why is Paterson not an expert at all?
This:
Professor of Educational Policy at Edinburgh University, Lindsay Paterson is a statistician with a background in agricultural and medical research using statistical methods. He has absolutely no experience of teaching in schools or in teacher education methods. He has no experience of school management or of research into the curriculum other than in counting assessment data. He’s just a jumped up bean-counter. Despite that, he’ll turn up on request, rent-a-gob, to say something bad about any Scottish Government decision that involves numbers.
Talking-up Scotland 
Actually I think I know who the experts might be in this case.
A seemingly positive article in the Herald was full of comments mentioning teachers marking their own homework etc.
Only the best for the beeb…
iutbe
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At the end of the Scottish Government release of the “Achievement of Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) Levels 2022-23” statistics yesterday it states –
“The figures released today were produced by professionally independent statistical staff in accordance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.”
When you click on the link provided to the Code of Practice for Official Statistics, this is what you get.
https://code.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/
“The Code of Practice for Statistics sets the standards that producers of official statistics should commit to.
The Code benefits all of us, as users and citizens. Compliance with the Code gives you confidence that published government statistics have public value, are high quality, and are produced by people and organisations that are trustworthy.”
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Would he be the same Lindsay Paterson that stood as a conservative candidate in 2010 for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
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I think that one was a woman!!!
I Am sure that the “prof” is an out and out unionist though!!!
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That photo about absolutely reeks of Mr. Burns in the Simpsons.
“Hello children!”
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Here is a study from this “wlndbag” quit clearly another “academic” who doesn’t quite get it!!!
The unionists are definitely rattled…….a worried westmonster……….they will stop
at nothing to keep us Scots down!!!
Here is the opening salvo.
“ Support for Scottish independence has remained stable since the change in the leadership of the Scottish National Party in March 2023, despite the fall in support for the party. The article analyses the sociological basis of independence support since 1979, using data from the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey and recent opinion polls. The recent stability reflects three main changes: the pronounced growth in support among people born since the 1970s; the growth of education in these same cohorts; and the shift to the left of the independence campaign. These long-term trends suggest that the level of support for independence, and of opposition to it, are unlikely to be affected strongly or permanently by the transient fortunes of the SNP.”
And we have this quote further down,
“ John P. Mackintosh, Labour MP and professor of politics, put it with characteristic clarity as long ago as 1974:
Only one thing will halt or reverse the onward march of the SNP and that is a period of government in London which is really successful so that it ends with a satisfied electorate eager to vote positively for a party that has once again restored the feeling that Britain is a successful, worthwhile country to belong to.”
WELL NO CHANCE OF A SUCCESSFUL GOVERNMENT IN LONDON THAT WILL
SUPPORT OR EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE SCOTLAND……..
GUESS INDEPENDENCE AIN’T GOING AWAY ANYTIME SOON.
ONE ANSWER ALL SUPPORTERS OF INDEPENDENCE MUST COME TOGETHER AND VOTE SNP, THE ONLY PARTY AND LARGEST THAT WILL MAKE IT A REALITY,!!
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Forgot to add the tag
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-923X.13306
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Why is it I keep hearing “Will ye gang the heilans sleazy Lindsay…” these days…
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Lindsay Patterson is the problem.
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