What are the treats to the validity of the 11+ entrance examination for entry to UK grammar school and they can be resolved?

• This assignment has a good tone and some useful references. What is missing, and crucial to achieving a pass, is a clearer focus on the analysis of the validity of the 11+ examination. In the comments below, I will show you what you need to do to help you achieve this. The focus should be as directly as possible on the validity of the 11+ assessment and what you would propose to improve it. The general description of the curriculum and teaching of grammar schools is less relevant to the assignment. • I recommend that your assignment should be in four main sections: 1) introduction; 2) description of the 11+ exam; 3) what are the threats to the validity of the 11+ examination?; 4) what can be done to resolve the issues of the 11+ examination? See the following bullets below to help for each section. I have suggested titles for each section in orange in the main document. • 1) The introduction should provide an overview of grammar schools and also provide your own interest in exploring the topic of the 11+ examination. This will contextualize the assignment in your own practice. Your role as a governor or parent will be fine for this. Your introduction as it stands is quite good, but I have suggested some areas for improvement. • 2) You should then have a section describing the features of the 11+ examinations (e.g. verbal, non-verbal etc), how they are marked and what uses the assessments are put to. At the end of this section, you should signpost which aspects of the 11+ you will be analysing e.g. marking reliability and fairness, i.e. what is to come in section 3. • 3) The next section should focus on some threats to the validity of the 11+ examination, using academic literature from the course to support your views. Currently in this assignment, you have identified several issues that could be put into this section – for example, the predictive validity of the 11+, the fairness of the assessment, and the role that coaching etc could play on student performance. These should be the focus for this section, and the assignment generally. In the comments in the margin, I have identified where I have found relevant analysis for you to put into this section and expand upon. It is really important that you engage with the literature of the course in this section. • 4) The final section should be focused on the implications of your analysis, for example what changes could be made to the 11+ examination to make it more valid? To finish off this section, you can discuss what role you might have in enacting this change. For example is there any research that could be done to investigate any of the issues further? • I have suggested quite large sections of text that are not relevant to the assignment task. Don’t be too disheartened by this. The suggestion to do this is to help re-focus the assignment on the key task, namely analyzing the 11+ in terms of its validity, and give you more words to include a deeper analysis of the validity of the 11plus exam. • You have a good referencing style which I hope you can maintain as you add in further references. The key for section 3 is to bring in the literature from the course. For example, you might want to use Crooks chain model as a way of structing your ideas about how to identify validity issues in the 11+ examination.