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Changes in Education Throughout the Years

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 brought CEM to Durham University where it grew from a small and focussed research centre to one of the...

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Assessment without Levels: Using CEM data

Has the removal of national curriculum levels in England created a broader interest in assessment practices?

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Reporting the evidence: what research can tell us about how assessment data is used

Katharine Bailey is Director of Policy here at CEM, and for many years she has been working with schools and governments in the UK and around the...

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6 elements of great teaching

"You’re a teacher. You know how to help people learn hard stuff. Do that." Professor Rob Coe Teaching can be, without a doubt, a complicated...

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Five things you need to know about value-added

We all know that academic progress is an individual thing. Making progress relies on a whole range of influencing factors and students make progress...

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Summertime and the planning is easy

The summer holidays are finally here and offer a long awaited break after SATs, GCSEs and A-levels. There has been a raft of changes which have hit...

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Baseline assessment, to test, or not to test, that is the question…

To test, or not to test? That is the question which provokes one of the most keenly fought debates in education policy, and which can lead to soul...

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