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Understanding low vocabulary scores - Quick Guide for Teachers
Vocabulary is an integral part of learning. So understanding why a child might be scoring low in the vocabulary section of a baseline assessment...
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Why do baseline tests assess vocabulary? - Quick Guide for Teachers
Vocabulary is important in every aspect of the curriculum. It gives students foundational knowledge that they can use to build their learning on – so...
How do baseline tests assess vocabulary? - Quick Guide for Teachers
Vocabulary is one of the key building blocks for helping students communicate effectively, but it’s also essential to school performance more widely....
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What affects educational achievement? - Quick Guide for Teachers
The Quick Guides for Teachers collection have been curated by the research and development team at Cambridge Insight to share insight on how baseline...
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Quick Guide for Teachers: An introduction to baseline tests
Understanding student potential and then providing the opportunities for them to fulfil that potential and succeed is the goal of every teacher in...
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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 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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Assessment and accountability
How many webpages, teacher forums and parent chat rooms abound with acerbic, defensive and downright despondent comments on the system of...
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6 elements of great teaching
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