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Beginning a journey
As the new school year draws near, many teachers will be planning the ‘educational journey’ for their new students, and knowing precisely where all of your students are starting from is invaluable.
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How does assessment data impact student learning?
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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5 reasons to use adaptive tests
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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10 top tips for using data in schools
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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Data: a silver lining
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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What do teachers want?
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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Standardised Tests 101 – how and why tests are standardised
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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Maths is for life…not just for Christmas
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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5 ways schools can evaluate their impact
Each year, the education system spends astonishing amounts of money on implementing educational initiatives which often yield only negligible impact...
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5 top tips for NQTs to crack assessment
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...