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By Richard Selfridge
Standardising a test score is fairly straightforward and I walked readers through the process. As I said, however, “deciding whether test scores reported in this way are meaningful depends on a number of other variables which come into play – and that requires an understanding of a whole raft of issues”...
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Have you written your Christmas list yet? What if the educational community had a stocking? What presents would we want to wake up to?...
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By Kate Bailey, Director of Policy, CEM
Each year, the education system spends astonishing amounts of money on implementing educational initiatives which often yield only negligible impact on learners...
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Your first year of teaching presents you with a wealth of challenges. How do you manage behaviour? How do you cope with the workload? How can you do your best? How will you know if you are a good teacher?...
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By Tim Oates CBE, Group Director of Assessment Research and Development, Cambridge Assessment
The term ‘evidence-based policy’ rose to particular prominence in the early years of the New Labour administration, following the 1997 general election...
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At the 10th Annual Festival of Education, held at the beautiful Wellington College, CEM hosted a panel on “Measuring progress in education: The good, the bad and the future.”...
On Tuesday 4th June 2019 we held the first ever Big Evidence Debate.
Leading educational experts Dylan Wiliam and Larry Hedges gave fascinating keynote presentations, and thought leaders and educational practitioners joined them to debate the contribution that meta-analysis and randomised control trials make to understanding what works in education.
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By Richard Selfridge
In recent years, ‘progress’ or ‘growth’ has become a much-discussed issue in education. The terminology has often been used to mean a numerical summary of a child’s development over time, usually when compared to their peers...
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By James Pembroke
In their pursuit of a number - a neat proxy for the distance travelled between two points - schools can do some crazy stuff...
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By Stuart Kime
To my mind, there was something heroic about Gene Glass’ presidential address to the 1976 American Educational Research Association annual meeting...