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Teachers vs Tech?
The case for an ed tech revolution
Find out moreEd tech has so much potential, both for teachers and learners, so why hasn’t it yet had the transformative impact on education that has long been promised?
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Making Good Progress?
The future of Assessment for Learning
Find out moreAssessment is a vital part of education, but done badly it can lead to distortions of classroom practice. Making Good Progress outlines the difference between formative and summative assessment and evaluates the effectiveness of a range of different assessment techniques and systems.
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Seven Myths About Education
Why knowledge matters
Find out moreKnowledge matters more than we think.
Project-based learning, 21st century schools and transferable learning: modern education is full of such apparently innovative ideas. But how many of them are based on evidence? In this book, Daisy Christodoulou shows through a wide range of examples and case studies just how many popular ideas about education contradict basic scientific principles.
“This may well be the most important book of the decade on teaching” From the foreword by Dylan Wiliam
Welcome
I’m the Director of Education at No More Marking, a provider of online Comparative Judgement software for schools. I’m also the author of three books about education: Teachers vs Tech, Making Good Progress, and Seven Myths about Education.
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Featured blog posts
Here are some of the most popular posts from my blog archive
What the marathon teaches you about education
Posted on April 27, 2019
In my book Making Good Progress I developed an analogy between education and marathon running. Put simply, you wouldn’t train for a marathon by trying to run 26.2 miles in every training session. And…
Shakespeare and creative education
Posted on March 11, 2017
This essay was first published in the Spring 2016 edition of Use of English. I can remember reading Othello for the first time when I was studying A-level, and feeling slightly disappointed and cheate…
Why and how we should teach grammar
Posted on February 5, 2012
Take a look at this piece of work. This is a level 3c piece of work, taken from an Ofsted report. You can see the rest of it on page 19 of this document. From my experience of teaching English in seco…
Featured video
How to remember anything, forever
Daisy Christodoulou speaking as part of the Research Ed Home CPD series, May 2020.
This presentation gives a quick overview of spaced-repetition research, and then focusses on some practical advice about how you can integrate a spaced-repetition flashcard system into your teaching & planning.
Recent blog posts
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Moving to Substack
Posted on March 20, 2023
I’ve just set up a free Substack newsletter where I’ll be posting all my future writing on…
Our new podcast on the history of education
Posted on February 13, 2023
My last few posts on this blog have all been about the future of education and the impact…
Research Ed 2022: Linking the curriculum & assessment
Posted on September 4, 2022
Here are my slides from September 2022’s Research Ed conference, and below is a short summ…
How to teach with John Stuart Mill
Posted on May 15, 2022
This was originally posted on the Lib Dem Teacher blog in 2015. Let’s imagine you want to…
