Learnin Aid to Help Pupils Pass ; Education Matters Previously the Preserve of Sweaty Job Interviews, Psychometric Tests Are Now Being Used On Schoolchildren to Assess Their Attitude to Learning. They Can Also Provide Parents with a Valuable Insight Into Their Child's Mind, As Education Correspondent Shahid Naqvi Finds Out

Birmingham Post › March 19, 2007

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How many parents really know what their children are like at school? They might get a bit of an idea from a brief chat with the class teacher on parents evening. Or from comments in a school report.

Asking their children is no use - invariably they're dealt a monosyllabic "OK", designed to stop further questioning.

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Learnin Aid to Help Pupils Pass ; Education Matters Previously the Preserve of Sweaty Job Interviews, Psychometric Tests Are Now Being Used On Schoolchildren to Assess Their Attitude to Learning. They Can Also Provide Parents with a Valuable Insight Into Their Child's Mind, As Education Correspondent Shahid Naqvi Finds Out

For the most part, parents are in the dark, until the exam results come out - by which time it may be too late.

However, that may change with the help of a diagnostic tool, alre...

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