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Education Show special : What single question causes teachers more problems than any other?
The question (and the answer) is at the Education Show
Published:  01 February, 2007

If there is one issue that encapsulates the changes that have swept education in the past ten years, it is the drive towards measurement. When this centres on pupil success in exams it does not cause too many problems – after all, everyone can read a league table.

But how do you put a numerical value on your achievements in working with, for example, children with emotional issues which prevent them making the most of their abilities?

Come to that, how do you measure the effect of your work with the gifted and talented, or the result of your team-building programme?

With the Rickter Scale, the Rickter Company has now developed a straightforward way of measuring success when dealing with these areas of work, and this will be demonstrated at the Education Show at the NEC this year.

On stand SN-A31 the Rickter Company will be giving practical one-to-one demonstrations on how success can be measured in areas from behavioural problems to school self-assessment.

They’ll also be issuing a unique challenge to teachers by saying, “If you believe your area of work does not readily lend itself to measurement, come and tell us about it and we’ll show you how the measurement can be done, there and then.”

As Keith Stead, co-developer of the Rickter Scale says, “Of course we don’t know in advance what we will be asked to measure – but we have successfully used the Rickter Scale in so many contexts that we are confident we are not going to be caught out.”

If you’d like to interview Keith about the remarkable Rickter Scale and the way it has revolutionised the measurement of change in areas that were previously thought not to be measurable, please call: Tel: 01463 717177 Email: info@rickterscale.com




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