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Why using the curriculum as your progression model is incompatible with 'measuring progress'
Sep 11, 2021 |
Category: assessment
Our capacity to misunderstand complex ideas leads, inexorably, to the lethal mutation of those ides. In my last post I set out why the apparently simple and obvious notion of 'using the curriculum as...
GCSE reform: a modest proposal
May 30, 2020 |
Category: assessment
The pandemic has cast many assumptions about how education could or should unfold into sharp relief. Like many others, I've been wondering about the positives we might find in our current situation an...
How can school inspection get what it wants?
Feb 10, 2017 |
Category: leadership
I read a great piece by Dr Becky Allen in Schools Week this morning on inherent unreliability of school inspections. In it she makes the point that human beings are incapable of making reliable, high...
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