Monthly Archives: August 2020

Explore the effect that pupil characteristics have on attainment and pupil progress Continued here: https://ift.tt/3hKyAel

Originally posted on e=mc2andallthat:
Most of us are only too familiar with the mordant truth of Shakespeare’s observation that “Old men forget, yet all shall be forgot”. In fact, things are generally worse than this suggests: everyone forgets,…

Over the next few weeks I’ll be hosting a series of five ‘back to school’ webinars on a range to topics aimed at early career teachers, those with a mentoring responsibility and anyone who simply… Continued here https://ift.tt/3ljQTJm

Ch-ch-changes. After the trials and tribulations of the summer of 2020, renewed calls are being made to transform education and change how assessment is enacted in schools.  For experienced… Continued here: https://ift.tt/32p11rC

Be careful when using GCSE average point score to compare cohorts Continued here: https://ift.tt/2QpKYEy

Originally posted on teaching personally:
My comments about the grades fiasco precipitated if not a torrent of correspondence, then certainly more than usual. Most disagreed with my position. Yet here we are, with the desired shift to centre-assessed grades, a.k.a.…

Which subjects have seen the biggest increases? Continued here: https://ift.tt/31b3eHR

Results will go up – by more in some subjects than others Continued here: https://ift.tt/2EgRdHM

The way that grades were adjusted could have benefited certain centres Continued here: https://ift.tt/2E7nTDy

Originally posted on teaching personally:
It is noticeable that today, even that scourge of right-wing governments, The Observer, accepts what I suggested in my earlier comments, that the parameters used in the exam-prediction algorithm made theoretical sense. But it is…