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A good vocabulary is an important building block for helping young children to communicate effectively, but it’s also essential to school performance more widely. Research consistently finds that the extent of a child’s vocabulary knowledge relates...
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Under the 2018 Ofsted framework, inspectors were advised to “ignore all tracking data” and from September 2019 Ofsted’s goal was to view performance...
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At the end of December, Professor Peter Tymms retired from his role as a Director of CEM. In 1996, Peter and Professor Carol Taylor-Fitzgibbon...
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By Rob Coe In part 1 of this blog post, I posed five questions about these uses of assessments. I’m going to take these questions in reverse order.
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By Rob Coe I was inspired to write this blog by reading Harry Fletcher-Wood's book ‘Responsive Teaching’. I really enjoyed the book and would...
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By Richard Selfridge If a student scores 65% on a test, what does this tell you? Is this mark good? Bad? Average? If it is deemed to be a...
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When I am lucky enough to talk to a group of maths teachers, whether it is in my school or one I am visiting, I often like to play the game, Guess...
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By James Pembroke Back when I worked in a local authority I was asked to build an Excel-based tracking system, something primary schools could use to...
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In 2017, the International School of Geneva’s Institute of Learning and Teaching, in partnership with several outside organizations, launched a...
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Being a teacher is hard enough, without spending unnecessary amounts of time on practices that just don’t make any real kind of an impact. It’s not...
