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Signs of progress: what can we learn from results?
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” - Benjamin Franklin.
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Spotlight on Research – getting to grips with what’s available
“We need to make sure that research findings get into the hands of teachers in ways that are most likely to have an impact. We know how challenging...
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Sense and Accountability
The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) has published a report today calling for reforms to the system for judging England’s primary...
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Assessment and accountability
How many webpages, teacher forums and parent chat rooms abound with acerbic, defensive and downright despondent comments on the system of...
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Navigating Evidence
In recent months there has been a real surge of interest in the ways that evidence and research can be used to help support and improve teaching and...
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Let’s give teachers the information they need to improve children’s academic outcomes
Since the early 1990s, Cambridge Insight (formerly CEM) has offered a baseline assessment for primary schools. We know it is vital that teachers have...
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Teachers need greater support in order to understand and maximise the value of assessment in their classrooms
A new report, Testing the Water: How assessment can underpin, not undermine, great teaching, published today by LKMCO and Pearson, calls for more...
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7 questions you need to ask about assessment
To a busy teacher, producing good assessments can be a time consuming and daunting prospect. When it is done well, an assessment can provide you with...
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Is student progress the same as teacher effectiveness?
There’s plenty to cry ‘unfair’ about in teaching right now. Your classes are getting bigger; there was no money for decent CPD again this year; and...
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What makes great assessment?
Over 20 years ago, at the very tail-end of the last century, Professor Rob Coe published his Manifesto for Evidence-Based Education, in which he...