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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 the best education we can provide so that they can go on to become functioning, happy and valuable...
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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...
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Your first year of teaching presents you with a wealth of challenges. How do you manage behaviour? How do you cope with the workload? How can you do...
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The term ‘evidence-based policy’ rose to particular prominence in the early years of the New Labour administration, following the 1997 general...
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At the 10th Annual Festival of Education, held at the beautiful Wellington College, we (as the Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring, CEM, now Cambridge...
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On Tuesday 4th June 2019 we held the first ever Big Evidence Debate. Leading educational experts Dylan Wiliam and Larry Hedges gave fascinating...
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In recent years, ‘progress’ or ‘growth’ has become a much-discussed issue in education. The terminology has often been used to mean a numerical...
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In their pursuit of a number - a neat proxy for the distance travelled between two points - schools can do some crazy stuff.
