Reassessing your school assessment model
By Nicki Devon, Deputy Head Academic, Eltham College Junior School, UK
Every Assessment Lead wants...
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What makes effective assessment?
By Suzanne Crocker, Assessment Standards Manager
Information on pupil progress is key to teaching...
Responsive Teaching
By Zoe Enser
Effective teaching is response to need. No two pupils always hold exactly the same...
5 top tips for sailing through assessments with confidence
By Mark Frazer, Teaching and Learning Lead, CEM
In the early days of my teaching career, I worked...
Adapting formative assessment to support second-language learners
By David Richards, Senior Leader, Vinschool Central Park, Vietnam
In international schools,...
Too much testing in schools?
It’s a common complaint from students, teachers, the press, and even the odd politician: there’s...
Measuring Progress in Education
At the 10th Annual Festival of Education, held at the beautiful Wellington College, CEM hosted a...
Evidence-Based Education: Who should be doing what?
Being a teacher is hard enough, without spending unnecessary amounts of time on practices that just...
Serious critiques of meta-analysis and effect size: researchED 2018
By Rob Coe
Since I became a researcher in the late 1990s, I have been an advocate of using effect...
Teachers need greater support in order to understand and maximise the value of assessment in their classrooms
A new report, Testing the Water: How assessment can underpin, not undermine, great teaching,...