on February 5, 2016
The Scotsman – Flagship legislation requiring the Scottish Government and councils to tackle the attainment gap has been passed by Holyrood, despite concerns about the return of national testing for primary school pupils.
Posted in Assessment Matters, News |
on January 30, 2016
Education Datalab – London schools do well, but not necessarily better than all other regions. TES News – Schools in the North East top rankings to challenge claims of a national divide.
Posted in Assessment Matters, National Data |
on January 12, 2016
BBC News Education – Where children grow up in England is more likely to determine success or failure at school than in previous generations, a study suggests. The Social Market Foundation has examined test results of cohorts born in 1970 and 2000 and found regional differences have become much greater. TES News – Inequality in […]
Posted in Assessment Matters, Performance Data |
on January 8, 2016
TES News – UK schools are among the worst in the developed world for “teaching to the test”, a new analysis of the effect of income inequality on education suggests. Danny Dorling – UK among world’s worst for teaching to the test.
Posted in Assessment Matters, International Comparisons |
on January 8, 2016
TES News – Exams too often “disempower” learners by failing to give them the chance to demonstrate their full range of knowledge and skills, according to a group of leading academics and policy advisers from around the world.
Posted in Assessment Matters, Examinations and Qualifications |
on January 4, 2016
South West AAIA invites you to experience UKFUNDISA – teaching that causes you to learn, and provides rich evidence that you have done so! SW AAIA Conference 2016 – programme and application form
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on January 3, 2016
Education Scotland – An international expert review group has declared that Scotland has the opportunity to be a ‘world leader’ in developing a new approach to assessment and evaluation in schools. OECD – Improving Schools in Scotland: An OECD Perspective.
Posted in Assessment Matters |
on January 3, 2016
Belfast Telegraph – Education Minister John O’Dowd not for turning despite rise in transfer test sittings.
Posted in Assessment Matters |
on December 18, 2015
BBC News Education – Progress on closing the gap between rich and poor pupils has not moved fast or far enough to tackle the gulf within a divided Britain, a report says. GOV.UK – State of the Nation 2015 report published: the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission’s new report assesses progress towards the one-nation Great […]
Posted in Assessment Matters |
on December 6, 2015
GOV.UK – The Ofsted Annual Report sets out the evidence and findings on the quality of schools and the further education and skills sector. GOV.UK – A nation divided: Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw’s speech to launch Ofsted’s 2014/15 annual report for education and skills. BBC News Education – North-south divide in England’s schools.
Posted in Assessment Matters, National Data |
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
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 – Research into how schools are raising the attainment of disadvantaged pupils.
Posted in Assessment Matters |
on November 1, 2015 | updated November 3, 2015
Equality and Human Rights Commission – In 2010, the Commission produced its first report on equality (How Fair is Britain?) and separate report on human rights (the Human Rights Review) in 2012. Is Britain Fairer? is the Commission’s follow-up report on both equality and human rights. This report outlines our findings and sets out the challenges […]
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on November 1, 2015
TES News – Author Philip Pullman has warned that an obsession with league tables and exams has left arts education in a “terrible state”. The Guardian – Philip Pullman decries ‘terrible state’ of children’s education in the arts.
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