on October 29, 2011
National Academies Press – This book reviews and synthesizes relevant research from economics, psychology, education, and related fields about how incentives work in educational accountability systems. It helps identify circumstances in which test-based incentives may have a positive or a negative impact on student learning and offers recommendations for how to improve current test-based accountability [...]
Posted in Assessment of Learning, Examinations and Qualifications, Performance Data
on October 29, 2011
TES article – So why has a pilot project on how to tackle it been pulled?
Posted in Assessment Matters, Performance Data
on September 30, 2011
TES article – Below-average exam results won’t automatically lead to disgrace.
Posted in News, Performance Data
on September 30, 2011
TES Scotland article – School-by-school performance data is a crucial lever for improvement, an international expert in education has said.
Posted in Performance Data
on September 26, 2011
TES article – Pupils without native English are suffering, study finds.
Posted in Assessment of Learning, Examinations and Qualifications, Performance Data
on September 26, 2011
TES article – Ministers flirt with league tables in a bid to catch up.
Posted in News, Performance Data
on August 2, 2011
DfE Research and Statistics Gateway – Interim Results for Key Stage 2 & 3 National Curriculum Assessments in England, 2010/11.
Posted in National Data, News, Performance Data, Statutory Assessment
on August 2, 2011
DfE news -Key Stage 2 test results published. BBC News: Education – The number of children leaving primary school in England with a good grasp of reading, writing and maths has increased again, government data shows. DfE Research and Statistics Gateway – Interim Results for Key Stage 2 & 3 National Curriculum Assessments in England, [...]
Posted in National Data, News, Performance Data, Statutory Assessment
on July 29, 2011
TES article – About 1,000 small schools will be included in league tables this year for the first time as the Government changes the threshold for inclusion from 11 to just six pupils.
Posted in News, Performance Data, School Self-Evaluation
on July 29, 2011
TES Cymru article – International test results are being used by the Welsh Government to introduce “seriously flawed” policies and as an excuse to “insult” the school workforce, according to a campaign launched by a teaching union.
Posted in Assessment Matters, International Comparisons, News, Performance Data
on July 29, 2011
TES article – Last year’s Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development report Going for Growth concluded that the UK has a lower level of social mobility than almost all other developed countries. Here, 50 per cent of the economic advantage of high-earning fathers is passed on to their sons. By contrast, that figure is less [...]
Posted in Assessment Matters, Performance Data
on July 29, 2011
TES Scotland article – Glasgow has renewed its plea for vocational qualifications to be given greater recognition, after analysis published by the University and College Union (UCU) last week showed that every Glasgow parliamentary constituency was below the British average for educational qualifications.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, News, Performance Data
on July 29, 2011
TES Cymru article – The number of 16 to 18-year-olds out of school and unemployed has fallen for the second year in a row, new figures revealed this week.
Posted in News, Performance Data
on July 22, 2011
University and College Union – Different areas of the same cities and counties in Britain have huge disparities in educational achievement. The analysis, from UCU, reveals ‘two Britains’ divided between the educational haves and have nots.
Posted in Assessment Matters, National Data, News, Performance Data
on July 19, 2011
DfE press notice – Education Secretary Michael Gove today accepted all the recommendations of Lord Bew’s independent review of testing, assessment and accountability at the end of primary school. DfE- Independent Review of Key Stage 2 testing, assessment and accountability: Government Response.
Posted in News, Performance Data, Statutory Assessment
Guidance to support teachers with assessment responsibilities to develop their roles.