Aus: Dr Jennifer Buckingham lays bear the inaccuracies in Professor Misty Adoniou's piece on the phonics check

[Debbie_Hepplewhite]

http://genius.it/13011602/www.aare.edu.au/blog/?p=2533

How the national phonics test is failing England and why it will fail Australia too

by Misty Adoniou

Click on the yellow highlighted text in Misty Adoniou's piece and Jennifer Buckingham's comments will pop up on the right hand side to address the many inaccuracies and contradictory statements.

Dr Jennifer Buckingham is a member of IFERI's Advisory Group.

[Debbie_Hepplewhite]

Professor Pamela Snow comments about Professor Misty Adoniou's piece via Pam's blog, The Snow Report:

Straw men and obfuscation: My response to Misty Adoniou on the Phonics Screening Check

http://pamelasnow.blogspot.co.uk

Professor Pamela Snow is a member of IFERI's Advisory Group.

[Debbie_Hepplewhite]

Jennifer Chew, advisor to the UK Reading Reform Foundation, noted this about results in England:

From the DfE report on the 2017 KS2 results: ‘Attainment at the expected standard has increased since 2016 by 5pp [percentage points] in reading and mathematics and by 4pp in grammar, punctuation and spelling (GPS). The proportion achieving the higher score increased by 6pp in reading and mathematics and by 8pp in GPS.’

So although only 58% of the 2017 KS2 children had reached the expected standard in the phonics screening check (PSC) in 2012, they still went on to do noticeably better at KS2 than the 2016 KS2 children, who had not done the PSC in Y1.