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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...

#Ofsted #Amanda Spielman #Flightpaths

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...

#Amanda Spielman #Charles Babbage #Jamie Oliver

What is a broad and balanced curriculum?

Jul 08, 2017 | Category: curriculum

Historically, the curriculum schools have taught hasn't really mattered that much. Then, when the National Curriculum was introduced in the late 1980s, committees of experts had made all the decisions...

#Amanda Spielman #broad and balanced curriculum #Michael Fordham

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...

#Ofsted #GCSE #Amanda Spielman #Nicholas Nassim Taleb #predicted grades

A response to the Education Select Committee: Why Amanda Spielman should run Ofsted

Jul 07, 2016 | Category: Featured

So. The Education Select Committee has rejected Amanda Spielman as the next Chief Inspector. Andrew Old has already summarised why he feels Amanda would have been a terrific appointment here and I agr...

#Amanda Spielman #Education Select Committee

Where now for school improvement?

Jul 03, 2016 | Category: Featured

In the past, school improvement was easy. You could push pupils into taking BTECs or Diplomas (sometimes with 100% coursework) equivalent to multiple GCSEs; you could organise your curriculum to allow...

#Tom Sherrington #Robert Coe #Amanda Spielman #Jack Marwoood

Why I'm optimistic about the new Chief Inspector

Jun 14, 2016 | Category: Featured

Guardian journalist and ex-teacher, Michelle Hanson thinks education in the UK is "going down the pan". In this article she tells us the memory of working as a teacher still makes her "feel a bit quea...

#Ofsted #Amanda Spielman

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...

#Joe Kirby #Daisy Christodoulou #Amanda Spielman #The Mastery Pathway