A study by Dr Andrew Clapham of the School of Education at Nottingham Trent University has explored the impact of the decision in 2012 to give schools just half-a-day’s notice of inspection.
The research comes after the chief inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, said in 2013 that some schools were “putting on a show” for inspectors.
Dr Clapham, however, finds that rather than putting on a show for the duration of an inspection, “constant readiness by schools to undergo scrutiny” has become the daily working conditions for teachers.
He explained: “Ofsted’s introduction of short-notice inspections ensured that the schools in question could not game the system just for the time period leading up to an inspection.
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