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Quality check: are your assessments giving you the best data?
Schools need to be able to trust that the assessment data they have is reliable and robust. But how can you tell? In this blog post we will look at...
Data quality
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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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Is meta-analysis all just ‘an exercise in mega-silliness’?
To my mind, there was something heroic about Gene Glass’ presidential address to the 1976 American Educational Research Association annual meeting....
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Meta-analysis: Don’t do it or Do it more carefully?
Meta-analyses (like the popular Sutton Trust Tool Kit and Hattie’s Visible Learning) apparently offer a more sophisticated and orderly approach to...
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Is meta-analysis the best we can do?
By Professor Steve Higgins Is meta-analysis in its current state trustworthy enough to be a basis for practitioner decisions? It all depends on what...
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Five Things I’ve Learned about the Importance of Good Assessment
By Alex Quigley Having been a teacher for nearly fifteen years, it may surprise you to hear that I hold a persistent fear that I have been grossly...
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Where is the value in assessment?
Assessment is one of those things that you think you know what it is until you start to really think hard about it.
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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...
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Would you let this test into your classroom?
By Professor Robert Coe In England, the government has announced the end of using levels for assessment. If that means an end to meaningless numbers...