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When is student choice a good idea?

Posted on February 16, 2020

When is student choice a good idea? Here’s an extract from a document from the Scottish Curriculum, on best practice in maths teaching. Children were asked about ways the school could improve learning…

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Scott Young’s Ultralearning: Projects or Drill?

Posted on January 19, 2020

In 2011, Scott Young set himself the challenge of learning MIT’s entire 4-year computer science degree, despite not being a student at the university. He succeeded. His new book Ultralearning is all a…

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PISA 2018: does reading on screen make a difference?

Posted on December 19, 2019

In my last blog, I showed how the PISA tests have been updated to take account of the fact we do more reading online. Not only are the tests computer-based, but they also feature tasks that mimic the…

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What can the PISA 2018 scores tell us about digital natives?

Posted on December 7, 2019

Every three years, the OECD’s PISA tests report on student performance in maths, reading and science in dozens of countries. They also choose one subject in particular to focus on in more detail. This…

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Even reliable assessments can be biased

Posted on September 20, 2019

Imagine a class of 20 students, ten boys, ten girls. They all sit a maths exam which is graded from 0 – 9. On average, the boys and girls do equally well. The average grade of all the pupils is 4.5, a…

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What is Mastery? The good, the bad, the ugly

Posted on May 7, 2019

Over the last couple of years the idea of a ‘mastery curriculum’ has become ever more popular – and ever more nebulous. I’ve heard the word ‘mastery’ applied to very different approaches to the curric…

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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…

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English Mastery: Writing an evidence-based curriculum

Posted on April 18, 2019

  My experience of English Mastery In 2013 I started working at Ark Schools, a network of academy schools based in London, Birmingham, Portsmouth and Hastings. Part of my job was to develop Ark’s…

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My top 10 education books of 2018

Posted on December 15, 2018

In no particular order… Learning How to Learn by Barbara Oakley, Terrence Sejnowski and Alistair McConville This book is a fun, witty and very, very practical summary of how we learn, and…

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I’m the Director of Education at No More Marking, an online provider of Comparative Judgement software. Comparative Judgement is a quicker and more accurate way of assessing open tasks like essays or extended pieces of writing.

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