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Validity and reliability

Posted on December 17, 2013

This is part two of my summary of Daniel Koretz’s book Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us. Part one, How useful are tests?, is here. Part three, Why teaching to the test is so bad,…

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A-level maths and earning potential

Posted on December 11, 2013

This week, the Institute of Physics have published a report on gender imbalances in certain subjects. They look at 6 A-level subjects: the typically ‘male’ ones of maths, physics and economics, and th…

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How useful are tests?

Posted on December 8, 2013

…Nixon-to-China position – he is able to criticise the ways assessments have been used in such strong terms because his background in devising assessments means that no-one can doubt his…

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Do national curriculum levels provide us with a shared language?

Posted on December 1, 2013

…national curriculum levels, which are used as a method of criterion referencing internal assessments. National curriculum levels are going to be abolished, but it is likely that many schools will…..

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The adverb problem

Posted on November 24, 2013

In a previous blog I looked at how hard it is to set exams based on criteria. I quoted Tim Oates: The first issue is the slippery nature of standards. Even a well-crafted statement of what you need to…

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What happens when you outsource the curriculum to the exam syllabus

Posted on November 23, 2013

In a previous post I looked at the vagueness of the 2007 national curriculum and some of the problems this posed for teachers. Often, when I discuss with this people, they say one of two things: First…

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GLA London Schools Atlas

Posted on November 20, 2013

A couple of weeks ago the Greater London Authority published a fascinating resource for anyone interested in London schools. It’s the GLA London Schools Atlas. The GLA have overlaid a map of London wi…

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Doris Lessing

Posted on November 17, 2013

I was very sad to hear today that Doris Lessing had died. Doris Lessing has been my favourite author since I first read Mara and Dann when I was 15. I think The Golden Notebook is probably my favourit…

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Exams and Goodhart’s Law

Posted on November 16, 2013

I blogged recently about the difficulty of finding the right assessment system. Afterwards, in a throwaway remark on twitter, I said that finding the right assessment format was a bit…

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