How do we know pupils are making progress? Part 3: Assessment In Part 1 of this series I set out the problems with making predictions about students’ progress by ... By assessment
How do we know pupils are making progress? Part 2: The curriculum In my last post, I set out the problems with making predictions about students’ progress by drawing ... By curriculum
How do we know pupils are making progress? Part 1: The madness of flight paths Schools are desperate to find ways to predict students’ progress from year to year and between key ... By assessment
If you tolerate this then your children will be next What kinds of poor behaviour should we tolerate? How much should we tolerate? There’s a wellspring of ... By behaviour
Ofsted and deeper learning: it’s like learning, but deeper Recently, I was contacted by a school who wanted some help working on ‘deeper learning’. I asked ... By Featured
What do students think about marking? Over the past year or so, I’ve been doing some very informal research into students’ attitudes and ... By Featured