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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 disrupted as a direct result (OECD, 2020).
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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...
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Have you written your Christmas list yet? What if the educational community had a stocking? What presents would we want to wake up to?
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Each year, the education system spends astonishing amounts of money on implementing educational initiatives which often yield only negligible impact...
