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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”...
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 Kirsty Younger
The Practical Work in Science study is nearing the end of its final year of data collection.
The study, funded by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation with a contribution from the Wellcome Trust, investigates how practical science in schools has been changing during a period of curriculum change and budgetary constraints...
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Teaching can be, without a doubt, a complicated business.
Defining effective teaching is not straightforward and there are many facets to it that combine to make great learning happen.
Since its publication in 2014, research published by the Sutton Trust outlining the key elements of effective teaching has been downloaded over 100,000 times...
