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Hi. I would like to know more about league tables according to acca syllabus. Who uses it, why is it used and how is it used ? and any other information relevant to league table
In the UK the government insist that schools, police forces and hospitals publish league tables. For example, schools publish their exam grades.
Potential problems:
Is the data ‘fair’. For example a school in a poor area with less parental support might find it hard to achieve the exam grades of a school in a prosperous area
Manipulation of data. A police force can flatter its success at solving crimes by simply not recording some crimes.
Magnification of differences. Three organisations achieving scores of 75, 74.5 and 74 will be labelled 1, 2, 3 whereas there is really no material difference.
See Q4 Dec 2013, Essland.
Thank you so much. This has really helped me to understand league tables at a certain angle
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