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According to a report published by the Department for Education in February, KS2 prior attainment data will not be used to calculate Progress 8 for KS4 cohorts in 2024/5 and 2025/6 due to disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. While alternative...
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Over the past four decades, technology has played a crucial role in shaping the development of adaptive baseline assessments at Cambridge CEM. I’m...
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Kate Bailey, Managing Director at Cambridge CEM shares the story behind the latest assessment development at CEM. When CEM was first founded in 1983,...
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The links between wellbeing and student achievement, relationships, behaviour and satisfaction are becoming increasingly clear in schools. Here,...
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On 9th January Professor Christine Merrell, my dear friend and irreplaceable colleague of 25 years, died peacefully after a short illness.
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The COVID-19 crisis has caused widespread school closures in 188 countries and 1.7 billion children, young people and their families have been...
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Data has always played a critical role in making good decisions in commerce and in the health sector, but education has lagged behind a bit.
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Each year, the education system spends astonishing amounts of money on implementing educational initiatives which often yield only negligible impact...
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"To be able to evaluate impact, we need to know where we are starting from. For this we need baseline data. From this starting point, we can evaluate...
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By Kate Bailey, Managing Director, Cambridge Insight The Queen’s speech after this year’s general election pledged to deliver fairer funding for...
