on November 30, 2015 | updated December 6, 2015
GOV.UK – Ofqual is introducing a national reference test (NRT), which will provide additional information to support the grades awarded at GCSE. Ofqual will trial the test in March 2016, and the first NRT will take place in March 2017. We’d like your views on proposed secondary legislation that requires selected schools to take part in the NRT. This […]
Posted in Examinations Reform, Secondary |
on November 30, 2015
The Future Leaders Trust – This research paper explores the relationship between school performance and relative geographical isolation in England, defined as the straight-line distance to the next nearest secondary school. The research particularly looks at how this relates to the GCSE attainment of students in receipt of Free School Meals (FSM students). It establishes […]
Posted in Performance Data, Secondary |
on November 24, 2015
EFA training – videos from 2016 key stage 1 and key stage 2 assessment arrangements webinars plus videos for 2016 national curriculum tests and assessments, 2016 interim teacher assessment frameworks and NCA tools short user guide.
Posted in Primary, Statutory Assessment |
on November 17, 2015
SchoolDash – This site provides Dashboards, Maps and other statistics about schools in England (with other UK nations to follow).
Posted in Performance Data, School Self-Evaluation |
on November 17, 2015
BBC News Education – Migrants ‘do not lower school results’. OECD – Can schools help to integrate immigrants?
Posted in Assessment Matters, International Comparisons, News, Performance Data |
on November 17, 2015
BBC News Education – This year’s GCSE results in England show few signs of a north-south divide getting any narrower. SchoolDash – This site provides Dashboards, Maps and other statistics about schools in England (with other UK nations to follow).
Posted in National Data, Performance Data, Secondary |
on November 17, 2015
The Sutton Trust – This report investigates patterns of academic attainment for different subgroups of a longitudinal sample of more than 3,000 students whose educational outcomes were studied across different phases of school and pre-school from age three to age 18.
Posted in National Data, Performance Data, Secondary |
on November 17, 2015
The Independent – Grammar schools do not boost social mobility and a new “tutor-proof” test has done nothing to stop children from wealthier backgrounds being coached to win places at selective schools, according to a new report. Local, Equal, Excellent – Who benefits? Buckinghamshire’s 11+ exam and outcomes for children.
Posted in Assessment Matters, Performance Data |
on November 6, 2015
GOV.UK – Provisional information on marking reviews for the 2015 key stage 2 national curriculum tests.
Posted in Primary, Statutory Assessment |
on November 6, 2015
GOV.UK – Research looking at different measures of socio-economic deprivation and their usefulness for providing funding to schools.
Posted in National Data, Performance Data |
on November 6, 2015
GOV.UK – Statistics on education and training in schools, further education and higher education across the UK.
Posted in National Data, Performance Data |
on November 6, 2015
GOV.UK – Research into how schools are raising the attainment of disadvantaged pupils.
Posted in Assessment Matters |
on November 3, 2015
The Guardian – I can understand that you may not have had a chance to look at the 2016 sample test for key stage 2 English grammar, punctuation and spelling. It suffers from a severe case of terminology-itis.
Posted in Primary, Statutory Assessment |
on November 3, 2015
TES News – Ministers are to consider the introduction of more “rigorous” assessments for seven-year-olds, including a possible return to national testing. BBC News Education – Morgan: Tougher tests and top teachers in weak schools. The Telegraph – All test scores from seven-year-olds ‘to be sent to government’, under plans being considered. Review to be announced […]
Posted in News, Primary, Statutory Assessment |
on November 3, 2015
TES News – Ministers have watered down their policy of requiring all secondary students to sit GCSEs in the core academic subjects that make up the English Baccalaureate.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, News, Secondary |
