Last week the cross party All Party Parliamentary Group for Schools, Learning and Assessment, chaired by MPs Flick Drummond and Emma Hardy, published their final report recommending ‘a study to evaluate the use of digital learner profiles’ – conducted in consultation with Rethinking Assessment.
The report noted that:
The design of learner profiles should serve as a record of children’s and young people’s achievements in academic, applied and creative subjects as well as a record of transferable skills. Populated throughout the school journey, learner profiles should be designed to travel with pupils and young people to their next stage of learning, be this secondary school, further or higher education, or work.
The limitations of relying on academic grades as the sole measure of student achievement is increasingly evident, and this latest report adds to the growing weight of evidence.
