The Near Year has started. Parents are thinking seriously
about the eleven plus. To tutor or not to tutor, that is the question!
Playground gossip tells of a wonderful eleven plus teacher.
She only takes on a few eleven plus children every year – but she does get
results. She decides that she is going to have to change her methods because a
new eleven plus examination is being mooted. She divided half of her ten pupils
to use the `New Eleven Plus Teaching Method’. She teaches the rest of her
children using her `normal’ methods.
The next year she only wants to tutor eight children. Her
daughter, who is studying to become a psychologist, offers to do some form of statistical
analysis to try to help her mother interpret the eleven plus results.
|
Eleven Plus
Pupils
|
The New
Method
|
The Normal
Method
|
|
First
|
81
|
72
|
|
Year
|
59
|
70
|
|
|
48
|
63
|
|
|
46
|
51
|
|
|
|
|
|
Second
|
92
|
97
|
|
Year
|
87
|
95
|
|
|
65
|
88
|
|
|
61
|
70
|
The daughter comes home for the weekend. She gGreets her
parents and asks to see the results.
A blessed silence falls over the house. The `almost’
psychologist daughter announces: “Mum, there is not much difference in the two
different methods of teaching. You will need to continue with the same methods
next year. We will then look again.
A new parent calls. Will her much loved daughter be taught using
the `new’ or the `old’ methods. The daughter who is studying to become a psychologist
has gone back to university. The well respected eleven plus tutor welcomes the new
family. Parents are happy. The child is happy.
What will the end result be?
