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How do you compare apples with oranges? Or even apples with oranges with cherries with bananas with peaches?
This isn’t a joke question that has a pithy punchline...
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The Westminster Insight conference for the new Ofsted Education Inspection Framework was held on Tuesday 26 March...
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The educational landscape is undergoing a bit of a shift. Just a mild understatement maybe...
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How many of us, I wonder, in our first year of teaching came across that small child who was always reading, always carrying big thick books and invariably introduced as a ‘book worm’?...
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Meta-analysis involves the aggregation of data from existing studies that share key features, in order to create a summary that reflects all the available evidence...
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In education, translating evidence into practice is a process which involves everyone, from classroom-based teachers, to school leadership teams, local authorities and to the wider education communities...
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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.
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Under the new Ofsted framework, inspectors will now “ignore all tracking data” and from September 2019 Ofsted’s goal will be to view performance measures more in the context of the quality of education provided...
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The first conference of its kind in the North East brought together an assortment of thought leaders from the contemporary education scene...
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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...
