Secondary

The Guardian - Some children turning up to see their new school have had a nasty surprise: reading and writing tests....

Education Endowment Foundation - Embedding Formative Assessment is a professional development programme which aims to improve pupil outcomes by embedding the use of formative assessment strategies across a school....

BBC News - How selection impacts on education is explored in Grammar Schools: Who Will Get In? on BBC Two at 2100 BST on Tuesday 5 June. Episode one is now available on the BBC iPlayer....

DfE - Implementation of T Level programmes: consultation response. DfE - New T Levels mark a revolution in technical education.  Education Secretary names the first 52 colleges and other providers set to teach T Levels....

TES - It would be 'sad' if key stage 3 was only about GCSE preparation, says Pearson vice-president.  Exam board leaders have raised concerns about schools that teach GCSEs over three years, instead of the two-year period they were designed for....

Ofqual - The purpose of this report is to review how moderation is currently being delivered in a number of jurisdictions across the world at upper secondary, and in particular to consider what might be learnt in terms of the approach...

DfE - Approved key stage 4 qualifications, discount codes and point scores for reporting in the 2014 to 2020 school and college performance tables....

DfE - Approved 16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes for reporting in the school and college performance tables....

TES - One of the biggest academy chains in the country has discussed entering as few as 15 per cent of pupils for the EBacc as part of plans to provide a more "appropriate" curriculum....

DfE - Ready reckoner to calculate level 3 value-added scores for providers, and transition matrices of level 3 results by key stage 4 prior attainment....

DfE - Ready reckoners to calculate progress scores for pupils and schools, and transition matrices of GCSE subject grades by prior attainment....

DfE - Revised information on A level and other results for 16- to 18-year-olds, including data by student characteristics....

DfE - Revised statistics on the achievements of young people at the end of key stage 4 in England, including attainment by pupil characteristics....

DfE - How to use school performance tables to see how a school is performing at key stage 4 compared to a school with a similar intake of pupils....

DfE - How to use school and college performance data to interpret pupil attainment and progress, and compare schools and colleges in England....

DfE - A list of qualifications included in the English and maths progress measures for 16 to 18 performance tables....

DfE - Approved 16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes for reporting in the school and college performance tables....

DfE - New results published today show standards are rising across England's secondary schools....

TES - Ofqual says consultation will be launched later this month on improving safeguards against teacher-examiners cheating.  Incidents where teacher-examiners have leaked questions to their students ahead of exams have been "deeply corrosive to public confidence", a high-ranking Ofqual official has...

DfE - Revised statistics on the achievements of young people at the end of key stage 4 in England, including attainment by pupil characteristics. BBC News - More than one in eight secondary schools in England is below the standard deemed acceptable by ministers,...

TES - The number of penalties issued to students has also risen – with the use of mobile phones in exam rooms a major factor, Ofqual figures show. Ofqual - Malpractice for GCSEs, AS and A levels: 2017....

Ofqual - Our summer report is being published alongside reviews of marking and moderation statistics and a range of associated analyses....

DfE - Information about the subjects and qualifications that count towards the EBacc....

DfE - The potential value to the UK economy of improving the GCSE results of disadvantaged pupils in each region of England....

Ofqual - Number of entries and late entries in GCSE, AS and A level qualifications. TES - AS-level numbers drop sharply after decoupling....