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Teachers’ tips
It’s been a crazy year, full of changes and challenges. Students and teachers have been in and out of school, adapting teaching, learning and assessment to ensure education continues during the pandemic.
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4 Signs of an effective Early Years Classroom
"Effective early years is the game changer." – Lydia Cuddy Gibbs, Head of Early Years, Ark Why the Reception year is so unique On day one of...
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Professor Christine Merrell
On 9th January Professor Christine Merrell, my dear friend and irreplaceable colleague of 25 years, died peacefully after a short illness.
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ABC’s of CEM
We are starting the year off by going back to basics and looking at what our assessments are all about. When we were pulling this together we...
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COVID-19 and learning loss
There is no research that can show us what the educational impact of COVID-19 school closures might be. Never in our lifetimes have so many schools...
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4 ways assessment data can support remote learning
More than 90% of the world’s schools have been affected by the pandemic this year. That’s hundreds of millions of students faced with school...
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Assessment & Teacher Wellbeing
I left teaching because there were ten-year-old children in tears over the SATs in my class. There were several other reasons why I walked away, but...
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The power of longitudinal data in schools
This summer – this whole year – has been unprecedented in many ways. For those working in education and assessment, the challenges have been...
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Does predictive data limit ambition or maximise potential?
The short answer: it all depends on how you use the data. Teachers are not fortune tellers or magicians despite the wonders they can often work....
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How do we make predictions of future exam outcomes?
By Andrew Lyth, Statistician, Cambridge Insight "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." - Nils Bohr At Cambridge...