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.
Education Endowment Foundation - Our Early Years Toolkit – an accessible summary of educational research – has been updated. Education Endowment Foundation - an accessible summary of educational research for early years teaching....
Read morePrime Minister launches world-leading project on impact of ethnicity on everyday life
GOV.UK - The ethnicity facts and figures website brings together information from across government about how ethnicity affects people's everyday lives. Education attainment data shows there are disparities in primary school which increase in secondary school, with Chinese and Asian pupils tending...
Read moreTES - Teaching union welcomes pledge from Scottish minister that the government will only access data 'at a national level'....
Read moreGOV.UK - Ofqual's annual report and accounts for the period 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017....
Read moreEducation Policy Institute - This report brings together research conducted in 2016 by both the London School of Economics and the Education Policy Institute on both the performance of different types of academies as well as that of Multi-Academy Trusts and...
Read moreGOV.UK - The information that the Department for Education (DfE) will publish in the school and college performance tables - updated 31 July 2018....
Read moreBBC News Education - Wales is in danger of missing out economically unless it improves its performance in global education tests, a former government advisor has said....
Read moreTES - A damning report into social mobility says there is “currently no prospect” of the grades gap between poorer children and their peers being eliminated at GCSE or A level. The Social Mobility Commission, in its report, also warns that it would...
Read moreGOV.UK - Analysis of school performance and house price data to determine if houses close to the best performing schools cost more....
Read more'Education has lost one of its great champions – a pioneer of the concept of "value-added" statistics'
TES - One leading educationist pays tribute to Professor Carol Taylor Fitz-Gibbon, who helped to create a monitoring system enabling schools to take a more informed and sophisticated view of data for the good of their pupils....
Read moreNUT - The Mismeasurement of Learning: How tests are damaging children and primary education....
Read more'Ofsted can't take all the blame for draconian marking policies – small-minded school leaders are also at fault’
TES - The inspectorate has repeatedly said that is not looking for detailed marking when judging schools – so why are some teachers still drowning under the weight of it?...
Read moreInspectors are still looking for detailed marking despite pleas not to, Ofsted admits
TES - Ofsted is "concerned" that its inspectors are still looking for detailed marking when judging schools – despite pleas for them to steer away from the practice....
Read moreGOV.UK - School Standards Minister Nick Gibb addresses the ResearchED national conference....
Read moreTESS - Standardised assessments must be brought in, despite teachers’ qualms, John Swinney tells EIS conference. The Scotsman - John Swinney tells teachers not to fear Scots test shake-up....
Read moreTES News - New research suggests that at least 194,000 pupils could be ill-prepared for the classroom in September. Large proportions of children starting school are not ready for the classroom, according to primary school leaders....
Read moreGOV.UK - Attainment of pupils at the end of key stage 2 and key stage 4, for the academic year 2013 to 2014, by levels of absence....
Read moreKey stage 2: English grammar, punctuation and spelling test framework (revised March 2016)
GOV.UK - Guidance for test developers on the purpose, format, content, cognitive demand and specification for the key stage 2 English grammar, punctuation and spelling test (revised March 2016)....
Read moreKey stage 1: English grammar, punctuation and spelling test framework (revised March 2016)
GOV.UK - Guidance for test developers on the purpose, format, content, cognitive demand and specification for the key stage 1 English grammar, punctuation and spelling test (revised March 2016)....
Read moreGOV.UK - Report about eliminating unnecessary workload for teachers when managing data, including principles and recommendations. GOV.UK - Letters from the teacher workload review groups and Nicky Morgan....
Read moreGOV.UK - Report about eliminating unnecessary workload for teachers regarding lesson planning, including principles and recommendations. GOV.UK - Letters from the teacher workload review groups and Nicky Morgan....
Read moreGOV.UK - Report about eliminating unnecessary workload for teachers regarding marking, including principles and recommendations. GOV.UK - Letters from the teacher workload review groups and Nicky Morgan....
Read moreEngland’s punitive assessment and accountability regimes stifle any benefits of academy freedom
TES News - Academies' autonomy means very little if the EBac forces you to drop the subjects that will suit your pupils best, or national tests leave you chronically uncertain about your future, writes a director of the Royal Society of...
Read moreWhy do we allow a limited suite of qualifications to dominate the way we think about education?
TES News - In education, there are three elemental components – curriculum, pedagogy and assessment; in other words, the ‘what’, the ‘how’ and the ‘whether’ of teaching and learning. The product of these components can create the conditions for powerful learning;...
Read moreBBC News Education - Children with poor language skills at age five are significantly more likely to struggle with maths at age 11, a study for Save the Children suggests....
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