Kate Bailey

Why we measure what matters

Kate Bailey, Managing Director at Cambridge CEM shares the story behind the latest assessment development at CEM.

When CEM was first founded in 1983, our guiding principle was to improve teaching and learning for all children and young people.

This hasn’t changed: CEM’s single-minded motivation over the last 40 years has been to help education professionals measure what matters, to give practitioners the evidence and insight to improve the quality of their teaching and students’ learning, and to improve all students’ chances for positive outcomes and success in later life.

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By Kate Bailey, Director of Policy, CEM

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