Assessment Matters
Assessment processes are integral to learning and teaching. This part of the site focuses on aspects of curriculum and pedagogy where assessment has a key role to play or that have implications for assessment practice, and includes links to relevant reports, research articles and sites.
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Department for Education’s handling of pupil data ruled illegal...
Read moreWhat maintained schools must publish online...
Read moreEducation in England: Annual Report 2020...
Read moreGetting transition right – four practical, evidence-based strategies to support pupils moving from Year 6 to Year 7
Getting transition right – four practical, evidence-based strategies to support pupils moving from Year 6 to Year 7...
Read moreGuidance for full opening - schools...
Read moreSchool reports on pupil performance: guide for headteachers...
Read moreHarvey Goldstein obituary...
Read moreFurther details on exams and grades announced...
Read moreInformation: cancellation of 2019/20 national curriculum assessments...
Read moreKey stage 1 SATs replacement to be rolled out from September...
Read moreGrammar school scoring is wrong, says father – and hopes finally to prove it...
Read moreData, data everywhere…...
Read moreHow attainment gaps emerge from Foundation Stage to Key Stage 4, part one...
Read moreSchool workload reduction toolkit (including Data management and Feedback and marking)
School workload reduction toolkit (including Data management and Feedback and marking)...
Read moreUnexplained pupil exits from schools: Further analysis and data by multi-academy trust and local authority
Unexplained pupil exits from schools: Further analysis and data by multi-academy trust and local authority...
Read moreSats are no better than teachers at predicting pupil's GCSE and A-Level results, study finds
Sats are no better than teachers at predicting pupil's GCSE and A-Level results, study finds...
Read moreSchool exclusions review...
Read moreClass privilege remains entrenched as social mobility stagnates...
Read moreDfE - Materials to help school leaders and teachers review tasks associated with data management, so they can reduce workload....
Read moreDfE - Advisory group report on removing unnecessary workload associated with data management and the government’s response....
Read moreDfE is proposing the removal of floor standards and coasting measures and that, instead, all schools judged as Requires Improvement by Ofsted will be eligible for support and that schools with two consecutive Requires Improvement judgements will be eligible for...
Read moreOfsted - The draft education inspection framework for 2019 sets out how Ofsted proposes to inspect schools, further education and skills provision and registered early years settings. BBC News - Ofsted pledges new ranking for schools in tough areas. The Guardian - Ofsted plans overhaul...
Read moreThe Sutton Trust - As the academies programme has developed, policymakers have increasingly seen academy chains, and especially multi-academy trusts (MATs) as the best way of working to improve the performance of previously struggling schools and the educational outcomes of their...
Read moreOfsted - Ofsted's Annual Report presents our findings for the areas we inspect in early years childcare, schools, further education and skills and social care....
Read moreInstitute of Fiscal Studies - ... those who attend grammar schools do, on average, somewhat better than similar children in the comprehensive system. On the other hand, those in selective areas who don’t get into grammar schools do worse than they...
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