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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 schools, in order to make it fairer on schools and better for children.

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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...

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