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How do you compare apples with oranges? Or even apples with oranges with cherries with bananas with peaches? This isn’t a joke question that has a pithy punchline. Is it possible to compare a wide range of very different items and still draw...
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The Westminster Insight conference for the new Ofsted Education Inspection Framework was held on Tuesday 26 March 2019. Since the claim that Ofsted...
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The educational landscape is undergoing a bit of a shift. Just a mild understatement maybe. But big changes are not exactly new in education, so...
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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...
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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...
