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How resilient is your school when it comes to measuring student progress?
According to a report published by the Department for Education in February, KS2 prior attainment data will not be used to calculate Progress 8 for...
Progress
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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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Data: a silver lining
It was inevitable: the school closures were going to present more than a few challenges for children, parents and teachers. The challenges, however,...
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5 ways schools can evaluate their impact
Each year, the education system spends astonishing amounts of money on implementing educational initiatives which often yield only negligible impact...
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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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Measuring Progress in Education – The good, the bad and the future
In recent years, ‘progress’ or ‘growth’ has become a much-discussed issue in education. The terminology has often been used to mean a numerical...
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The Level Illusion
By James Pembroke Back when I worked in a local authority I was asked to build an Excel-based tracking system, something primary schools could use to...