§ Mr. HobanTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment he has made of the correlation between value added measures of school performance and absolute measures of school performance, with particular reference to GCSE/GNVQ results. [179899]
§ Mr. Miliband[holding answer 22 June 2004]: For maintained mainstream schools published in the 2003 Secondary (GCSE/GNVQ) performance tables, the correlation between the school KS3-GCSE value added measure and the school average capped point score for 15-year-olds was 0.46.