Two in five parents want SATS to stay

SATS tests still have strong support among parents, according to an opinion poll for the government.
44% want the tests to stay, compared to 36% who want them replaced with another system. The rest were "don't know"s.
Despite this result, most parents had not used SATS to see how their child was doing at school, to monitor their progress, or to identify areas where their child needed support, or did not intend to use them in that way.
One in three parents said SATS had been no use to them, or they didn't expect them to be of any use.
Of those who wanted SATS to be replaced, half favoured a combination of the teachers' judgement of a child's progress and assessments carried out by the child's teacher.
The poll was conducted by Ipsos MORI and the results are based on interviews with 936 parents of at least one child of school age.
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