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5 top tips for sailing through assessments with confidence
By Mark Frazer, Teaching and Learning Lead In the early days of my teaching career, I worked for a fantastic primary school headteacher who always...
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Adapting formative assessment to support second-language learners
By David Richards, Senior Leader, Vinschool Central Park, Vietnam In international schools, teachers and educators face an additional challenge when...
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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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Evidence-Based Education: Who should be doing what?
Being a teacher is hard enough, without spending unnecessary amounts of time on practices that just don’t make any real kind of an impact. It’s not...
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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 size and meta-analysis for summarising and...
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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, published today by LKMCO and Pearson, calls for more...
How can teachers learn to be better teachers?
By Professor Rob Coe Download Professor Rob Coe’s presentation from the 2017 Festival of Education. We’ll update with a more detailed blog piece at...
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What makes great assessment?
Over 20 years ago, at the very tail-end of the last century, Professor Rob Coe published his Manifesto for Evidence-Based Education, in which he...