Cambridge CEM Blog

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

How schools can engage with research and evidence

It makes sense that the most effective teaching methods are used in classrooms, and that the most...

Evidence-based education: expectations, barriers and pitfalls

By Dr Deborah M. Netolicky

Teachers, school leaders, schools, and education systems around the...

Data matters

There is broad agreement in research that effective use of data is vital to school improvement. We...

Evidence-Based Practice: What it is and what it isn’t

Introduced by Professor Rob Coe

We are delighted to host this piece by Gary Jones, in which he...

Reporting the evidence: what research can tell us about how assessment data is used

Katharine Bailey is Director of Policy here at CEM, and for many years she has been working...

Translating Evidence into Improvement: why is it so hard?

In February Schools NorthEast held their Evidence-based Excellence event, bringing together...

Sense and Accountability

The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) has published a report today calling for...

Assessment and accountability

How many webpages, teacher forums and parent chat rooms abound with acerbic, defensive and...

Navigating Evidence

In recent months there has been a real surge of interest in the ways that evidence and research can...

Let’s give teachers the information they need to improve children’s academic outcomes

Since the early 1990s CEM has offered a baseline assessment for primary schools.

We know it is...