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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...
#GCSEs #accountability #Becky Allen

The GCSE English "fiasco" - Why shouldn't all have prizes?

Sep 02, 2012 | Category: English
Lots of folk have had lots to say about what went on behind the scenes at the various exam boards this summer and throughout it all I've largely kept my peace. Having absorbed the various arguments an...
#English #GCSEs #Gove #literacy #grade inflation

Exam analysis

Aug 28, 2011 | Category: assessment
September looms and I've already been given an appointment for my Progress Meeting to discuss last year's results and strategies for this year's.On the one hand, I could be forgiven for feeling quite...
#Chris Weadon #failure #GCSEs #Ian Gilbert #results #Woody Allen

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