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Read the latest articles on education and assessment written by teachers, school leaders and assessment experts.

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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 whole-school or departmental approach to assessment that is clear, consistent and coherent: What is the...

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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...

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Evidence-based policy & practice in education – knowledge in the light or strategy in the dark?

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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Measuring Progress in Education

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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