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How do we know pupils are making progress? Part 1: The madness of flight paths
Mar 23, 2019 |
Category: assessment
Schools are desperate to find ways to predict students' progress from year to year and between key stages. Seemingly, the most common approach to solving this problem is to produce some sort of 'fligh...
Garbage in, garbage out
Oct 16, 2018 |
Category: assessment
This is my latest article for the rather wonderful Teach Secondary magazine.Schools are awash with data but do we know any more about how children are performing? Are we clear how likely they are to a...
Put down your crystal balls
Jul 03, 2017 |
Category: assessment
Many of the schools I visit and work with feel under enormous pressure to predict what their students are likely to achieve in their next set of GCSEs. In the past, this approach sort of made sense. O...
Is it possible to get assessment right?
May 23, 2015 |
Category: assessment
No.After my last blog on how to get assessment wrong, various readers got in touch to say, OK smart arse, what should we do?Well, I'm afraid the bad news is that we'll never get assessment right. Or a...
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