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- How many pupils in mainstream schools are regularly educated off-site? – Education Datalab blog July 1, 2022
- Why were GCSE grades in independent schools so high during the pandemic? – Education Datalab blog June 29, 2022
- Attainment 8 in 2022 – Education Datalab blog June 24, 2022
- How many pupils fall below the proposed national thresholds for legal intervention due to absence? – Education Datalab blog June 21, 2022
- Royal National Children’s Springboard Foundation evaluation report – Education Datalab blog June 20, 2022
- Teaching Vocabulary and Mighty Morphemes – The Confident Teacher June 18, 2022
- How many children are in unregistered alternative provision? – Education Datalab blog June 16, 2022
- Do teenagers who feel anxious about testing achieve worse GCSE grades? – Education Datalab blog June 15, 2022
- Write like the Romans – The Confident Teacher June 12, 2022
- Why A-Level physics students are doubly penalised by grading severity – Education Datalab blog June 8, 2022
- Criticising resources June 6, 2022
- Leading Literacy… And Communicating Complexity – The Confident Teacher June 5, 2022
- Embedding reading fluency in the KS3 English curriculum – David Didau: The Learning Spy May 29, 2022
- The Grammar Gap – The Confident Teacher May 28, 2022
- Closing the Writing Gap – New Resources – The Confident Teacher May 22, 2022
- Year 11 attendance during the build-up to exams – Education Datalab blog May 20, 2022
- The size of multi-academy trusts – Education Datalab blog May 18, 2022
- Introducing… Closing the Writing Gap – The Confident Teacher May 17, 2022
- Does taking A-Level maths improve your grades in physics and computer science? – Education Datalab blog May 13, 2022
- Repeat suspensions and exclusions during compulsory schooling – Education Datalab blog May 11, 2022
- Leading Literacy… And Purposeful Professional Development – The Confident Teacher May 7, 2022
- Kirchhoff — and die happy May 2, 2022
- Leading Literacy… And Influencing Teachers – The Confident Teacher April 30, 2022
- Is there is a link between Year 11 pupils’ wellbeing and their GCSE grades? – Education Datalab blog April 28, 2022
- Is A level maths a requirement for A level physics and computer science? – Education Datalab blog April 26, 2022
- Leading Literacy… And Perennial Problems – The Confident Teacher April 24, 2022
- The Importance of Early Literacy – Education Datalab blog April 15, 2022
- Five things we’ve learned this term about pupil absence – Education Datalab blog April 8, 2022
- 6 Micro-moves for Academic Talk – The Confident Teacher April 2, 2022
- Do disadvantaged students choose different subjects from their peers at Key Stage 5? – Education Datalab blog April 1, 2022
- Why has DfE chosen such an unusual measure as its GCSE target in the new White Paper? – Education Datalab blog March 28, 2022
- Simple Questions to Support Change – The Confident Teacher March 20, 2022
- 30 Years of Ofsted – Education Datalab blog March 16, 2022
- Units, you nit! March 13, 2022
- The case against Power Point as means of implementing curriculum – David Didau: The Learning Spy March 13, 2022
- The FFT Regional Attendance Tracker – Education Datalab blog March 11, 2022
- Does it matter if you don’t get a C (or 4) grade in GCSE mathematics? – Education Datalab blog March 10, 2022
- Assessing English at KS3 – David Didau: The Learning Spy March 5, 2022
- Come work with me… – David Didau: The Learning Spy March 4, 2022
- How can the government’s target of 90% of pupils achieving the expected standards at Key Stage 2 be achieved? – Education Datalab blog March 1, 2022
- Why ‘disrupting education’ doesn’t work – The Confident Teacher February 19, 2022
- Who should read aloud in class? – The Confident Teacher February 12, 2022
- How did the attainment gap change during the pandemic? – Education Datalab blog February 11, 2022
- Do disadvantaged children receive enough financial education in school? – Education Datalab blog February 11, 2022
- Are there socio-economic differences in how parents interact with their children about money? – Education Datalab blog February 11, 2022
- What’s the point of more elite sixth forms? – Education Datalab blog February 11, 2022
- The financial skills of children. What can rich kids do that poor kids can’t? – Education Datalab blog February 10, 2022
- How unequal are children’s financial literacy skills? – Education Datalab blog February 10, 2022
- Marking is murder! – The Confident Teacher February 5, 2022
- Will the Government’s latest attendance initiative work? – Education Datalab blog February 4, 2022
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Monthly Archives: March 2019
Constructing EduTwitter
Originally posted on Filling the pail:
Embed from Getty Images For reasons I cannot recall, I recently listened to this podcast in which an Australian education academic is interviewed about a book chapter he has written on teachers and social…
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Is scientific evidence ‘phallic’?
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Embed from Getty Images Back in 2015, I wrote a series of three blog posts arguing that we need to change the way we train teachers. In Part II, I wrote about the research…
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How do we know pupils are making progress? Part 3: Assessment – David Didau: The Learning Spy
In Part 1 of this series I set out the problems with making predictions about students’ progress by drawing a ‘flight path’ between KS2 and KS4, then, in Part 2, I explained how thinking about the… Continued here https://ift.tt/2Oufs6y
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The silliest feedback from work scrutinies
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If you teach in a state school in England, you have probably experienced a “work scrutiny” where your superiors take some of your students’ books and try to determine something about the quality…
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How do we know pupils are making progress? Part 2: The curriculum – David Didau: The Learning Spy
In my last post, I set out the problems with making predictions about students’ progress by drawing a ‘flight path’ between KS2 ad KS4. This posts begins to discuss what we should do instead. The… Continued here https://ift.tt/2Jzg4Zv
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How do we know pupils are making progress? Part 1: The problem with flightpaths – David Didau: The Learning Spy
Schools are desperate to find ways to predict students’ progress from year to year and between key stages. Seemingly, the most common approach to solving this problem is to produce some sort of… Continued here https://ift.tt/2UcaCQJ
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Progress 8 for disadvantaged pupils in coastal schools – Education Datalab blog
How have pupils in coastal areas fared under the GCSE reforms of recent years? Continued here: https://ift.tt/2HM45VV
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This is what happens when teachers find their voice
Originally posted on Filling the pail:
One of the most obvious signs that teachers are starting to take control of the education agenda is when there is resistance from the establishment. There are hints that we are approaching this state…
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Barking up the wrong tree
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Embed from Getty Images People are attracted to attempts to generally boost our cognitive abilities for obvious reasons. Traditionally, the way to improve at mathematics or piano playing or writing essays has been to…
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