Newslink October 2021
Membership magazine of the Motor Schools Association; road safety, driver training and testing news.
Membership magazine of the Motor Schools Association; road safety, driver training and testing news.
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News<br />
Linking ADIs’ post-test data hasty and<br />
flawed, NASP warns the DVSA<br />
As reported in the past two issues of <strong>Newslink</strong>, the DVSA has proposed targeting standards<br />
check on those ADIs who consistently present failing pupils for L-tests. By looking at the<br />
data on test failures and linking them to the ADI number given on the test, it hopes to locate<br />
ADIs who it believes are offering poorer quality tuition, and will then prioritise those ADIs<br />
for assessment. However, during discussions with NASP – which is made up of MSA GB, the<br />
ADINJC and the DIA – a number of concerns have been raised by the ADI profession, and<br />
these were outlined in a statement to the DVSA last month.<br />
NASP’s response to the DVSA proposal is published here.<br />
NASP statement to the industry<br />
concerning prioritisation of standards<br />
checks<br />
As part of the continuing dialogue<br />
between NASP and DVSA concerning<br />
issues arising from the agency’s recent<br />
change in approach to prioritising<br />
Standards Checks, NASP met again with<br />
the regulator. At this meeting we<br />
discussed continuing concerns, raised<br />
further questions and pushed for answers<br />
and further clarification on points<br />
previously raised.<br />
While NASP recognises the merit of<br />
using performance data derived from<br />
pupil’s tests as a part of measuring<br />
trainer performance, we continue to have<br />
grave concerns about how this data will<br />
be derived and used, the overall impact<br />
of the new approach and the manner in<br />
which it has been brought into being - ie,<br />
with little or no proper consultation.<br />
Overall, NASP still does not feel our<br />
(and the industry’s) concerns have been<br />
satisfactorily addressed on this important<br />
issue.<br />
NASP’s key concerns are:<br />
• The way data is generated.<br />
Performance data is derived from a<br />
certificate in a window,. Is this too<br />
unreliable a way of deriving such<br />
important data? Should data be drawn<br />
from a wider set of data points, and<br />
submitted in a more consistently reliable<br />
way, ensuring a more reliable picture of<br />
an individual’s performance?<br />
Could more time and thought be given<br />
to better ways of generating more reliable<br />
data?<br />
• DVSA has indicated the data to be<br />
utilised is a snapshot of the trainer’s<br />
performance in the last 12 months. This<br />
will be problematic for ADIs currently, or<br />
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