on July 20, 2015
DfE School Performance Tables – 2015 School and College Performance Tables Statement of Intent (July 2015). AAIA Facebook – Handy guide to the DfE ‘coasting school’ definition (KS2): 12 key thresholds – 7 of which we don’t yet know (courtesy of @hertsassessment).
Posted in Performance Data, School Self-Evaluation |
on July 20, 2015
RAISEonline – To support the new inspection arrangements from September 2015, we are developing an inspection dashboard. It will be provided through the RAISEonline website from mid-September.
Posted in Inspection guidance, Performance Data, School Self-Evaluation |
on July 20, 2015
GOV.UK – Pedagogy in early childhood education and care (ECEC): an international comparative study of approaches and policies.
Posted in Early Years |
on July 20, 2015 | updated August 1, 2015
GOV.UK – Commission on Assessment Without Levels: The commission has completed its final report and the government is considering its official response. We’ll publish both the report and the government response when schools return from the summer break in September 2015. See also – Schools don’t seem able to give up levels, leaked report finds.
Posted in Assessment Matters, Assessment of Learning, News, Primary |
on July 14, 2015
Guardian Education – Does becoming an academy improve pupils’ Sats results? That is the implication of much of the debate coming from the Department for Education, as ministers seek to drive more primary schools, in particular, into academy status. But is this argument statistically valid? Ministers may need to rein in their oft-stated enthusiasm for the controversial phonics screening check […]
Posted in Performance Data, Primary, Statutory Assessment |
on July 14, 2015
TES News – Headteachers have accused the government of “plunging schools into disruption and uncertainty” by “shifting the goalposts” on GCSE reforms.
Posted in Examinations Reform, Secondary |
on July 14, 2015
GOV.UK – The executive headteacher of a leading special needs school will oversee a new review into how to assess accurately pupils with lower attainment, Schools Minister Nick Gibb announced today (13 July 2015). TES News – New review of assessment for low-attaining pupils set up.
Posted in Assessment Matters, Assessment of Learning, News |
on July 14, 2015 | updated September 7, 2015
TES News – A new Ofsted report has cast fresh doubts on the wisdom of the government’s controversial new “baseline” assessments for four-year-olds. GOV.UK – The report of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills 2015: Early years.
Posted in Assessment of Learning, Early Years, News |
on July 7, 2015
GOV.UK – 2015 level thresholds for Key Stage 2 tests. See also Statutory Assessment – England.
Posted in Primary, Statutory Assessment |
on July 2, 2015
TES News – Teachers have largely rejected moves to introduce “baseline” tests for four- and five-year-old children in their first few weeks of school. See also: Reception baseline assessment: guide to signing up your school (updated 1 July 2015) Baseline assessment guidance
Posted in Assessment of Learning, Early Years |
