on June 30, 2015
GOV.UK – Government sets out the definition of a ‘coasting’ school.
Posted in Assessment Matters, News, Primary, Secondary |
on June 29, 2015
BBC News Education – Four out of 10 of England’s poorest boys start school without the language skills needed to learn, a study says.
Posted in Assessment Matters, National Data, Primary |
on June 29, 2015 | updated July 7, 2015
GOV.UK – Scoring guidance, pupils’ materials and answer sheet for the 2015 phonics screening check. See also Year 1 Phonics Screening Check.
Posted in Primary, Statutory Assessment |
on June 26, 2015 | updated October 2, 2015
TES News – Stanford University professor on how her theory has been misinterpreted.
Posted in Assessment Matters, Growth Mindset |
on June 26, 2015
TES News – Government considers plans to replace teacher assessment of KS1.
Posted in News, Primary, Statutory Assessment |
on June 26, 2015
GOV.UK – Research into the effectiveness of schools’ phonics teaching practices.
Posted in Primary, Statutory Assessment |
on June 26, 2015
GOV.UK – Research into the educational attainment of pupils in England by their ethnicity.
Posted in National Data |
on June 15, 2015
GOV.UK – National curriculum assessments: past papers.
Posted in Primary, Statutory Assessment |
on June 15, 2015 | updated September 7, 2015
GOV.UK – Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector confirms the biggest changes to education inspection for more than 2 decades. See also: Inspection Guidance.
Posted in Assessment Matters, Inspection guidance, News |
on June 15, 2015 | updated September 5, 2015
GOV.UK – Common inspection framework: education, skills and early years from September 2015. GOV.UK – School inspection handbook (with effect from September 2015).
Posted in Assessment Matters, Inspection guidance, News |
on June 14, 2015
TES News – Pupils are at risk of receiving unfair and incorrect marks for their Sats exams this summer because of problems caused by the introduction of an online marking system, whistle-blowers have told TES.
Posted in News, Primary, Statutory Assessment |
on June 14, 2015
Guardian Education – The education secretary, Nicky Morgan, will this week announce plans to push pupils towards studying more academic GCSE qualifications by threatening to downgrade schools that fail to enrol pupils in the government’s English baccalaureate suite of subjects. BBC News Education – Traditional GCSE subjects for all pupils.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, Examinations Reform, News, Secondary |
on June 14, 2015
TES News – Uncertainty over standards in new GCSEs in England has spread to another major area of the curriculum. Ofqual has revealed that it will now have to run extra checks on the level of difficulty in reformed science qualifications. TES – ‘It is unacceptable that Ofqual appears unable to ensure that exams are set at […]
Posted in Examinations Reform, Secondary |
on June 14, 2015
TES News – A TESS survey of Scotland’s 32 local authorities has found that standardised testing cost the councils at least £1,052,782 in the past year. The true cost to the Scottish purse is likely to be considerably higher, however, with four councils failing to respond.
Posted in Assessment of Learning |
on June 14, 2015
TES News – Fears that national testing might be reintroduced to Scottish primary schools have been allayed.
Posted in Assessment of Learning, News, Primary |
