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Philippa Cordingley – Chief Executive CUREE Paul Crisp – Managing Director CUREE Steve Higgins – Professor of Education, Durham University We are planning a barbeque in our new house next weekend and we want to know if it’s going to rain. We look at...
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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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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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By Sue Holt The GCSE and IGCSE results have been published so no doubt there have been celebrations, commiserations and, in some cases,...
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By Mark S. Steed, Director, JESS, Dubai This week sees thousands of students receiving their GCSE results. Now is also the time when many anxious...
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“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” - Benjamin Franklin.
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“We need to make sure that research findings get into the hands of teachers in ways that are most likely to have an impact. We know how challenging...
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Deep vocabulary learning is irreversible, irreplaceable and essential to learning and thinking. However, as it is so integral to all of schooling and...
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Any good assessment is a balance between reliability and validity.
At the Festival of Education 2018, Rob Coe’s presentation followed on from his recent blog post But that is NOT AN ASSESSMENT! by discussing some of...
