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

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Would you let this test into your classroom?

By Professor Robert Coe In England, the government has announced the end of using levels for assessment. If that means an end to meaningless numbers based on unstandardized, impressionistic, selective and biased judgements that fail to capture true...

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Classroom observation: it’s harder than you think

by Professor Robert Coe We’ve all done it: observed another teacher’s lesson and made a judgement about how effective the teaching was. Instinctively...

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Baseline assessment, to test, or not to test, that is the question…

To test, or not to test? That is the question which provokes one of the most keenly fought debates in education policy, and which can lead to soul...

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