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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. Guiding students through their exams is not just about drilling through course content, but also...
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By Andrew Lyth, Statistician, Cambridge Insight "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." - Nils Bohr At Cambridge...
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The COVID-19 crisis has caused widespread school closures in 188 countries and 1.7 billion children, young people and their families have been...
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As the new school year draws near, many teachers will be planning the ‘educational journey’ for their new students, and knowing precisely where all...
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Data has always played a critical role in making good decisions in commerce and in the health sector, but education has lagged behind a bit.
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Assessment in education has always been an important issue, and each school has its own approach. Schools can find it challenging to embed a...
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There is so much data available in schools that it can be overwhelming; whole school, cohort, comparisons within a cohort, historical comparisons,...
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It was inevitable: the school closures were going to present more than a few challenges for children, parents and teachers. The challenges, however,...
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Fundamentally, teachers want to do the best by their students. The ideal end-goal is to be able to send our students out into the world armed with...
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Standardising a test score is fairly straightforward and I walked readers through the process here. As I said, however, “deciding whether test scores...
