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

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Reassessing your school assessment model

By Nicki Devon, Deputy Head Academic, Eltham College Junior School, UK Every Assessment Lead wants a great assessment model for their school, but how do you ensure the tail isn't wagging the dog? A school in which the curriculum is a hostage to its...

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What makes effective assessment?

By Suzanne Crocker, Assessment Standards Manager Information on pupil progress is key to teaching and learning success, but sometimes less is more....

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Responsive Teaching

By Zoe Enser Effective teaching is response to need. No two pupils always hold exactly the same pieces of information. How they have understood core...

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5 top tips for sailing through assessments with confidence

By Mark Frazer, Teaching and Learning Lead In the early days of my teaching career, I worked for a fantastic primary school headteacher who always...

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Adapting formative assessment to support second-language learners

By David Richards, Senior Leader, Vinschool Central Park, Vietnam In international schools, teachers and educators face an additional challenge when...

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Assessment in English

By Zoe Enser Assessment is one of the most important things we do in the classroom. It is part of the ongoing dialogue between teacher and learner...

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What makes a good early years assessment?

By Dr Pat Preedy In the 1990s, I was invited to be part of the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM, now Cambridge Insight), the team that...

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Barriers to making data-based decisions in education

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Barriers to making data-based decisions in education

By Suzanne Crocker, Product Manager, Cambridge International As human beings we make thousands of decisions everyday based on the information (or...

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­­­Guide to assessment in the first term

The beginning of a school year is always the busiest. There’s so much to consider and do and plan and prepare for that it can feel overwhelming....

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Data Quality at CEM

Each year CEM processes the results for hundreds of thousands of students participating in our assessments. The results from those assessments are...

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