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How many of us, I wonder, in our first year of teaching came across that small child who was always reading, always carrying big thick books and invariably introduced as a ‘book worm’? And how many of us quickly figured out that while they were...
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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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Meta-analysis involves the aggregation of data from existing studies that share key features, in order to create a summary that reflects all the...
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In education, translating evidence into practice is a process which involves everyone, from classroom-based teachers, to school leadership teams,...
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A good vocabulary is an important building block for helping young children to communicate effectively, but it’s also essential to school performance...
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Under the 2018 Ofsted framework, inspectors were advised to “ignore all tracking data” and from September 2019 Ofsted’s goal was to view performance...
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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...
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By Rob Coe In part 1 of this blog post, I posed five questions about these uses of assessments. I’m going to take these questions in reverse order.
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By Rob Coe I was inspired to write this blog by reading Harry Fletcher-Wood's book ‘Responsive Teaching’. I really enjoyed the book and would...
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By Richard Selfridge If a student scores 65% on a test, what does this tell you? Is this mark good? Bad? Average? If it is deemed to be a...
