It has taken time but I sense some of the fog is clearing in the post-levels World. The title is a simple statement I make when speaking at various conferences about assessment; you could almost see the penny drop with attendees. Far too many schools replaced levels with something that looked like levels and was equally as flawed and meaningless. Continue reading
Useless assessment data has always abounded in schools maybe in organisations generally. Leaders get to make the final decision on what data is collected; time is finite, data purportedly for tracking and monitoring progress is generated whilst that of greater value to support teaching and promote learning is sidelined. Continue reading
Curriculum coverage is arguably the curse of the English Education system; a mile wide and an inch deep. Decades of national curriculum with the indispensable and the peripheral intertwined and given a sense of equal importance. Continue reading