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Teachers’ tips
It’s been a crazy year, full of changes and challenges. Students and teachers have been in and out of school, adapting teaching, learning and...
Evidence-informed practice
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4 ways assessment data can support remote learning
More than 90% of the world’s schools have been affected by the pandemic this year. That’s hundreds of millions of students faced with school...
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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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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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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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The Big Evidence Debate – Catch Up
On Tuesday 4th June 2019 we held the first ever Big Evidence Debate. Leading educational experts Dylan Wiliam and Larry Hedges gave fascinating...
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Translating Evidence into Practice
In education, translating evidence into practice is a process which involves everyone, from classroom-based teachers, to school leadership teams,...
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Is it time to ditch ‘Differentiation’?
By Greg Ashman I suspect I would struggle to find a teacher who has never heard of ‘differentiation’. Exhortations to differentiate are ubiquitous in...
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How schools can engage with research and evidence
It makes sense that the most effective teaching methods are used in classrooms, and that the most effective leadership and governance practices are...
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Evidence-based education: expectations, barriers and pitfalls
By Dr Deborah M. Netolicky Teachers, school leaders, schools, and education systems around the world are increasingly expected to use data to inform...