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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...
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...
How to subvert target grades
Jan 15, 2012 |
Category: assessment
Target grades are good aren't they? They must be otherwise why would Ofsted be so damn keen on them. Consider this: how would Monsieur d'Ofsted respond when asking an unsuspecting student in your clas...
The joy of marking
Oct 27, 2011 |
Category: assessment
I'm a big fan of marking students' work. I love it so much I let a big pile of it build up to do over the holidays. As an English teacher I'm faced with a lot of marking and most of it needs to be rea...
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