on January 8, 2016
BBC News Education – This year’s key GCSE and A-Level examinations have been timetabled to take into account the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, exam boards have said.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, News, Secondary |
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
Posted in Assessment Matters, News |
on January 3, 2016 | updated January 7, 2016
BBC News Education – Every pupil in England will be tested on their times tables before leaving primary school, under government plans. Pupils aged 11 will be expected to know their tables up to 12×12, and will be tested using an “on-screen check”.
TES News – All pupils to sit new times table test as part of KS2 Sats – and schools will be held accountable.
STA – Assessment update containing information about on-screen multiplication tables check.
Posted in News, Primary, Statutory Assessment |
on December 10, 2015
Department for Education – The primary school performance tables provide school-level information on the achievements and progress of pupils at the end of the 2014/15 school year.
GOV.UK – Impressive progress in English primary schools continues.
BBC News Education– More primary schools succeed in ‘three Rs’.
TES News – Floor standards: almost 700 primaries fall short of government benchmark.
The Telegraph – Primary school league tables: More than 200,000 taught in struggling schools.
The Guardian – Primary schools outside London catching up with capital.
Posted in National Data, News, Primary |
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 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 by Nicky Morgan, the Education Secretary, will look at ways to improve how to track pupil progress in early years.
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 |
on November 2, 2015
The Guardian – Ministers are considering more rigorous assessments for seven-year-olds – including the reintroduction of national tests – as part of an overhaul of primary school appraisal to being announced by education secretary Nicky Morgan.
Posted in News, Primary, Statutory Assessment |
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 for the future.
TES News – Minority ethnic pupils are narrowing attainment gap with white peers, report shows.
TES News – Teach boys and girls in the same way, says exam board research director.
Posted in Assessment Matters, News |
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.
Posted in Assessment Matters, News |
on November 1, 2015
The Sunday Times – Tough new tests and assessments for England’s primary school children may be scrapped in a wide-ranging review after opposition from unions and head teachers in what many will see as a significant government U-turn.
Posted in News, Primary, Statutory Assessment |
on October 19, 2015
TES News – It has been around since the 1950s, easing the passage to university for generations of pupils in return for very little revision. But TES can reveal that the Department for Education has decided to abolish A-level general studies.
Posted in Examinations Reform, News, Secondary |
on October 19, 2015
TES News – Just three of 156 new GCSEs, AS- and A-levels that schools will be expected to teach from next year have had any official approval from exams regulator Ofqual, it has emerged.
Posted in Examinations Reform, News, Secondary |
on October 11, 2015
TES News – A large number of migrant children in a school can lead to worse exam results in many countries, but not in England, according to research.
IZA World of Labour – Immigrants in the classroom and effects on native children.
Posted in Assessment Matters, International Comparisons, News |
on October 11, 2015
TES News – The Scottish government risks alienating the entire teaching profession if its plans for measuring school performance are “imposed” too quickly, one of the leading backers of the project has said.
Posted in Assessment Matters, News, Performance Data |
