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Supporting student development across subjects with baseline assessments
Effective teaching strategies involve understanding the whole student, and baseline assessments play a crucial role in making this possible. Teachers...
Student success
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Examining achievement levels in multi-academy trusts
By Lucy Baker and Suzanne Tipping, Assessment Advisors Multi-academy trusts (MATs) have become a prevalent model in the education sector, aimed at...
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Working with schools in Southeast Asia to understand what contributes to success in education
In February and March 2023, Dr Irenka Suto, Assistant Director of Assessment & Research, and Suzanne Crocker, Researcher & Assessment Products...
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Does predictive data limit ambition or maximise potential?
The short answer: it all depends on how you use the data. Teachers are not fortune tellers or magicians despite the wonders they can often work....
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Why does vocabulary matter?
A good vocabulary is an important building block for helping young children to communicate effectively, but it’s also essential to school performance...
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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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Finding the ‘Sweet Spot’ of Teaching, Learning and Assessment
By Mark Frazer, Teaching and Learning Lead, Cambridge Insight In my previous blog post, I considered some of the findings from the 2015 PISA study....
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Data matters
There is broad agreement in research that effective use of data is vital to school improvement. We know that the effective use of data can promote...
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Reporting the evidence: what research can tell us about how assessment data is used
Katharine Bailey is Director of Policy here at CEM, and for many years she has been working with schools and governments in the UK and around the...