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- ‘Who’s Left 2019’: additional (quirky) suggestions December 7, 2019
- The effect of GCSE reforms: How have they affected long-term disadvantaged pupils? – Education Datalab blog December 5, 2019
- The effect of GCSE reforms: Have they widened the disadvantage gap? – Education Datalab blog December 5, 2019
- Who’s Left 2019, part one: The disadvantage gap is bigger than we thought – Education Datalab blog December 5, 2019
- Who’s Left 2019, part three: The government needs to take action – Education Datalab blog December 5, 2019
- Who’s Left 2019, part two: How do you lose 6,700 pupils? – Education Datalab blog December 5, 2019
- Is England’s PISA 2018 data reliable? – Education Datalab blog December 3, 2019
- Nine key findings from PISA 2018 – Education Datalab blog December 3, 2019
- Data, data everywhere… – Education Datalab blog December 3, 2019
- Five things to remember when the PISA 2018 results are released – Education Datalab blog December 2, 2019
- Early schooling and the lifetime risk of increasing antisocial behaviour/conduct problems December 1, 2019
- What do the latest Early Years Foundation Stage Profile results show? – Education Datalab blog November 29, 2019
- From Guided to Independent Writing — Teachwell November 28, 2019
- When the going gets tough, schools make data – Education Datalab blog November 27, 2019
- The distorting lens of perspective (and why teachers need to be professionally sceptical) – David Didau: The Learning Spy November 26, 2019
- Should England continue participating in PISA? – Education Datalab blog November 26, 2019
- Mathematics Mastery evaluation report – Education Datalab blog November 25, 2019
- Magic Breakfast evaluation report – Education Datalab blog November 25, 2019
- The road to hell – David Didau: The Learning Spy November 24, 2019
- The Baron: Chapter One: Part two: Ofsted Derangement Syndrome… November 23, 2019
- Still standing… November 20, 2019
- Is Canada really an education “superpower”? The evidence is not as clear-cut as you might think – Education Datalab blog November 19, 2019
- What works best for children with SEND works best for all children – David Didau: The Learning Spy November 17, 2019
- Reading catch-up for older students: one-to-one or small groups? November 16, 2019
- Why I have a problem with PiXL November 15, 2019
- Should we bring back contextual value added? – Education Datalab blog November 15, 2019
- Should we eat more fish or more ice cream to boost PISA scores? – Education Datalab blog November 12, 2019
- Are schools ever at fault for exclusions? – David Didau: The Learning Spy November 11, 2019
- What causes exclusion and what does exclusion cause? – David Didau: The Learning Spy November 10, 2019
- Faff vs slick practice – why an experience with Direct Instruction should be the entitlement of every SCITT student November 9, 2019
- Breaking down education spending in England – Education Datalab blog November 8, 2019
- Contextualised attainment at Key Stage 2 – Education Datalab blog November 6, 2019
- Do proposed adjustments to grading in GCSE languages go far enough? – Education Datalab blog November 6, 2019
- Vice Chairs matter November 5, 2019
- Is PISA ‘fundamentally flawed’ because of the scaling methodology used? – Education Datalab blog November 5, 2019
- What should schools teach? – David Didau: The Learning Spy October 29, 2019
- How do GCSE grades relate to PISA scores? – Education Datalab blog October 29, 2019
- FIFA for the GCSE Physics calculation win October 27, 2019
- Never say never again October 27, 2019
- ‘Oh, he’s a hitter. That’s what he likes to do’ October 27, 2019
- The trouble with Shakespeare, or Should everything be easy? – David Didau: The Learning Spy October 26, 2019
- Are all types of reading equal, or are some more equal than others? – Education Datalab blog October 22, 2019
- The EYFS butterfly and the storm in Year Seven October 19, 2019
- Schools Like Yours: Now with 2019 data for secondary schools – Education Datalab blog October 18, 2019
- What do Ofsted reports reveal about the way schools are being inspected under the new framework? – David Didau: The Learning Spy October 17, 2019
- Secondary school league tables 2019: Four things we’ve learnt – Education Datalab blog October 17, 2019
- Solutions to problems with Progress 8, part one: qualification scoring – Education Datalab blog October 15, 2019
- Solutions to problems with Progress 8, part two: taking account of context – Education Datalab blog October 15, 2019
- How do headteachers in England use test data, and does this differ to other countries? – Education Datalab blog October 15, 2019
- Fourteen Educational Myths October 14, 2019
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Monthly Archives: December 2015
ORRsome blog posts December 2015
Originally posted on high heels and high notes:
This is the last ORRsome blog posts of the year. Having blogged in 2014 as a weekly feature and for 2015 as a monthly feature, I feel now is the time to…
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Reflections on Journeys
Originally posted on thinkingreadingwritings:
It’s been a year of two kinds of journeys. For students, the journey is one through seemingly impassable obstacles to a new vantage point, a journey of not just discovery but also self-discovery. This series of…
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Can a false choice be an object of research?
Originally posted on Filling the pail:
I read an interesting post by Ross McGill?on his pet peeves. Some of them seem reasonable although anyone who thinks textbooks are outmoded because they cannot include all the information in the world should…
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That was 2015…
Originally posted on Class Teaching:
As the end of the year approaches, it seems only right to write the obligatory ‘review of 2015’ blog! As we look back over each month, I’ll share my own favourite from here, as well…
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Ambition 2: Other people’s and what to do about them.
Originally posted on teaching personally:
I suppose there is just a slim chance that those headmasters were sagging because they had spotted in me the potential for top management and were trying to nurture it – but I doubt it.…
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Annual report 2015 – David Didau: The Learning Spy
Well, 2015 has been and gone. It’s been a great year for me personally and one in which the blog has continued to make waves. It seems that as more and more ordinary teachers are liberated from… Continued here http://ift.tt/1Smak1d
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Is teaching a ‘natural ability’?
Originally posted on Evidence into Practice:
What characteristics does a teacher need to be effective? The answer appears to be elusive as various reviews find that most teacher characteristics appear to have only marginal impact on student attainment. For example, looking…
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