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**Chris** · 25-09-2015, 10:33

If you bring in targets and tests to meet them, then human nature is to design to beat the test. None of this is actually that surprising when you think about it. Is it really much different than the situation in our classrooms up and down the country, where so much time is put into getting the kids to perform well in SATS or showing off the school in the best possible light when Ofsted pays a visit?

The only way around this is rigorous, external, unannounced examination of the kind inadvertently provided by the researchers who uncovered the VW scandal.

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Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 36,929	Re: VW accused of 'rigging' emissions tests If you bring in targets and tests to meet them, then human nature is to design to beat the test. None of this is actually that surprising when you think about it. Is it really much different than the situation in our classrooms up and down the country, where so much time is put into getting the kids to perform well in SATS or showing off the school in the best possible light when Ofsted pays a visit? The only way around this is rigorous, external, unannounced examination of the kind inadvertently provided by the researchers who uncovered the VW scandal.