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Why assessment may tell you less than you think – Part 2
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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Why assessment may tell you less than you think – Part 1
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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Standardised Scores 101 – Understanding how Standardised Scores are Calculated
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...
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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...
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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...