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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...
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I was inspired to write this blog by reading Harry Fletcher-Wood's book ‘Responsive Teaching’. I really enjoyed the book and would recommend it to any teacher who wants to make ‘formative assessment’ work in their classroom.
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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 good/bad/average mark, against whom is this judgement being made – the other children in a class, in a school, or similar children across the country?...
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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 the Misconception...
