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Parents are due to be offered details of this year's exam results in their children's schools. Details of this year's school exam results have been published on the internet.
The Scottish Executive stopped publishing league tables three years ago after claiming they were misleading. The data is made available annually on the Scottish Schools Online website.
The information is now available on different parts of a website, making it difficult to make comparisons. The site data allows parents to compare the performance of individual schools with the regional and national averages.
Critics have said the new system is less transparent and may encourage schools to be complacent. Critics of the system said it lacks transparency and does not allow an easily assessible guide to results from schools in a particular neighbourhood.
Ministers made an unsuccessful attempt to abolish exam league tables, which were at-a-glance guides ranking the performance of every school. At-a-glance league tables are currently available to parents in England and Wales.
The executive claimed the tables were misleading because schools with many pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds may have appeared to be doing less well, when they were actually punching above their weight. Some newspapers in Scotland have continued to compile league tables from the information provided by the executive.
However, the Freedom of Information Act prevented abolition. The executive has been opposed to league tables, which it said can be misleading by failing to take into account factors affecting performance.
Ministers compromised by isolating information on different parts of the Scottish Schools Online site, making it difficult to compile at-a-glance guides.
Newspapers have continued to publish league tables.