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Thanks, Tim, and Max. I'd thought the Daily Mail was a "Shock-Scream-Don't
Wait to Investigate" publication----quite an embarrassment in the journalism
world. Hence, thanks, Tim, for setting a context for our evaluation of its
credibility.
Judy
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Judy's scepticism about the reliability of the Daily Mail is entirely
justified in this instance. Given the question actually *asked (rather than
the one the Daily Mail *said was asked), I'm suprised the teachers did as
well as they did. I'm not sure I would have scored even three. It wasn't
"name six poets," it was:
10. List 6 ‘good’ children’s [sic!] poets
... and here's the full comment in the report:
"The data suggest that naming 6 good poets was not such an easy task. 58% of
the respondents could only name one, two or no poets. 22% named no poets at
all. Only 10% named six poets. Once again, some of the named poets might
also be seen in the other categories (e.g. Allan Ahlberg and Roald Dahl).
There was a predominance of poets mentioned whose poetry might be seen as
light-hearted or humorous. In the top twenty in order of numbers of
mentions, the last two were women poets. The highest number of mentions was
Michael Rosen (452) with five others gaining over a hundred mentions: Allan
Ahlberg (207), Roger McGough (197), Roald Dahl (165), Spike Milligan (159)
and Benjamin Zephaniah (131). After these, three poets were mentioned more
than fifty times: Edward Lear (85), Ted Hughes (58), A.A. Milne (57)."
Link to the full questionnaire and the report here:
http://www.ukla.org/site/research/research_projects_in_progress/teachers_as_readers_building_communities_of_readers/
Robin
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