Dr. Thomas Christie presents three radical suggestions for educational improvement through examination data. He advocates for adding data columns to better analyze performance, focusing on outliers instead of central tendencies, and engaging with outliers to gather insights. These suggestions aim to enhance the formative uses of summative examination data.

1. Bringing the Best of National Qualifications

2. Deriving Local Solutions from Global Data: Three Radical SuggestionsDr. Thomas ChristieAga Khan University-Examination Board

3. The OpportunityExamination boards hold more data on the performance of the educational system than any other source.The examination boards remain unexamined

4. Radical Suggestion (1)Add columns not rows.Question totals tell us more than person totals.The deeper the mine, the more valuable the data.

5. Radical Suggestion (2)Discount central tendencies: Search for ‘Outliers’.Ask Microsoft Excel for Block and Whisker graphs.

6. But only after computing value-added.Radical Suggestion (3)Go and talk to the ‘Outliers’. They know something you don’t. Better still eavesdrop while they talk to each other.

7. F U S E DIn AKU-EB we see these suggestions as coming together inFormativeUses of SummativeExaminationData

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