Tuesday, 17 September 2013 - 02:18
Best Cito school does not take Cito test
The Twilling elementary school from Stiens, announced as best scoring Cito-school in RTL News, turns out not to take any Cito tests at all.This was made public by the school on Monday. RTL removed the school from the list.The school, located in the Frisian Stiens, works with a so-called student tracking system. This system measures student results over several years. These students do not take a Cito test at the end of 8th grade.
Even though the school would like to be the best, the hat has to fit, according to Nanne Koopmans, director of the umbrella organization of schools from the Stiens region. She goes on to say the figures supplied by the Ministry to RTL were not complete.
The Ministry of Education contradicts that. RTL requested and received the final test results from all primary schools, according to a representative from the Ministry. Although popularly spoken about the Cito test, it is not the same as the final test: the Cito test is just one of the final tests. Over 80 percent of schools work with the Cito test. The remainder use a different key or rely on information from the pupil tracking system.
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Wikimedia commons After a lingering issue, RTL News published the scores per school last weekend. RTL wanted to unearth the scores, using the law of public administration, but the schools tried to stop this through a lawsuit . They feared the list would be used to create a ranking score without context. Because Cito data are not readily comparable, RTL compared results from all schools to similar schools, rendering a score for each school. This figure also includes the social, economic and cultural background of all primary school students included. Thus, among other things, the education level of the parents and the number of students not born in the Netherlands were also included. Except The Twilling four other schools also sounded the alarm that their data were not right: two schools were very recently renamed and three schools had accidentally passed wrong information themselves to the Education Inspectorate.
Kevinmiao120599
Wikimedia commons After a lingering issue, RTL News published the scores per school last weekend. RTL wanted to unearth the scores, using the law of public administration, but the schools tried to stop this through a lawsuit . They feared the list would be used to create a ranking score without context. Because Cito data are not readily comparable, RTL compared results from all schools to similar schools, rendering a score for each school. This figure also includes the social, economic and cultural background of all primary school students included. Thus, among other things, the education level of the parents and the number of students not born in the Netherlands were also included. Except The Twilling four other schools also sounded the alarm that their data were not right: two schools were very recently renamed and three schools had accidentally passed wrong information themselves to the Education Inspectorate.