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Read the latest articles on education and assessment written by teachers, school leaders and assessment experts.

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Guess the Misconception

When I am lucky enough to talk to a group of maths teachers, whether it is in my school or one I am visiting, I often like to play the game, Guess the Misconception (my wife doesn’t let me play it at home).

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The Level Illusion

By James Pembroke Back when I worked in a local authority I was asked to build an Excel-based tracking system, something primary schools could use to...

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What do we mean by Research Informed Practice in Education?

In 2017, the International School of Geneva’s Institute of Learning and Teaching, in partnership with several outside organizations, launched a...

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Evidence-Based Education: Who should be doing what?

Being a teacher is hard enough, without spending unnecessary amounts of time on practices that just don’t make any real kind of an impact. It’s not...

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How can we trust research?

By Dr Gary Jones A major challenge for anyone interested in the use of research within both schools and the wider education system is to try and make...

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Celebrating World Teachers Day

‘Teaching is far and away the most important of all professions. Teachers make more difference to more people’s lives, in a way that more people feel...

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Is it time to ditch ‘Differentiation’?

By Greg Ashman I suspect I would struggle to find a teacher who has never heard of ‘differentiation’. Exhortations to differentiate are ubiquitous in...

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Systematic Reviews and Weather Forecasts – how purpose shapes the significance of systematic reviews for different education stakeholders

Philippa Cordingley – Chief Executive CUREE Paul Crisp – Managing Director CUREE Steve Higgins – Professor of Education, Durham University We are...

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What should we do about meta-analysis and effect size?

By Rob Coe In part 1 of this series of blog posts, I set out some of the recent criticisms that have been made by researchers such as Wiliam, Simpson...

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Serious critiques of meta-analysis and effect size: researchED 2018

By Rob Coe Since I became a researcher in the late 1990s, I have been an advocate of using effect size and meta-analysis for summarising and...

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