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

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Assessment for Teacher Learning: Making CPD responsive

Here’s the big idea – teachers can only improve their practice when they also improve their ability to assess. Dylan Wiliam, along with his colleague Paul Black, could be considered the fathers of formative assessment. And yet Dylan Wiliam considers...

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No robust evidence to prove learning styles exist

This week leading academics from the worlds of neuroscience, education and psychology expressed their concerns over the continuing popularity of the...

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How much difference does going to school make?

By Professor Christine Merrell, Cambridge Insight Director of Research Development. The contribution of schooling to learning gains of pupils in year...

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Carol Taylor Fitz-Gibbon, 1938 – 2017

At the end of January, the educational researcher who influenced me more than any other, my formative mentor, an inspirational leader, and the most...

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A Vision for Enhanced Professionalism

"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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Investigating Mathematical Attainment and Progress (IMAP)

by Dr Lee Copping Low attainment is acknowledged to be one of the most serious problems in mathematics education.

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Education systems can only be accountable for what they can influence

Professor Peter Tymms, Former Director of iPIPS, CEM* and School of Education, Durham University This week’s PISA results show that England’s...

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Reasons to be optimistic about assessment

This blog post is taken from the first part of a presentation Stephen Tierney (@leadinglearner) gave at the Learning First Conference in Sheffield on...

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Making a positive primary to secondary transition in Music

by Dimitra Kokotsaki Moving from Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 3 can be a big upheaval for many pupils. Schools work hard to ease the transition with a...

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NEON Summer Symposium 2016

Enabling wider access to Higher Education by Laura da Costa In June of this year, a team of CEM researchers, at Durham University, travelled to...

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