It’s no longer enough for students to emerge from their formal schooling with a few grades or marks - we owe it to them to give a much more nuanced picture of what they can do
Drawing on evidence from across the world, we show how high-stakes assessment is harming students and increasingly ignored by key stakeholders. We need to remind ourselves what matters in education....
One of the biggest, and most rarely stated problems we face as an education establishment and as a country, is the mismatch between what we promise young people and what we offer them...
We could have fairer selection processes through assessment and more effective accountability if we get rid of linked scales such as grades, or percentages as our way of reporting assessment outcomes...
It’s never been easier to tailor learning to the interests and needs of an individual student. We need an accessible assessment system that supports those individual approaches and isn’t locked in to a one-size-fits-all ...
A leap in the ‘science of assessment’ is the next frontier in showing how we can successfully evidence not only knowledge and domain-specific understanding, but also broader dispositions that are vital for success...
St Edward's School in Oxfordshire have developed their own certified courses, moderated by a University, to replace GCSEs - with the aim of offering fewer GCSEs and more SESCs in the future ...
Covid has provided the perfect opportunity for us a nation to re-assess and re-evaluate our exams, so that they provide a more comprehensive and holistic view of the student, instead of only a collection of numbers...
How can Edtech tools better support student learning? Joysy John shows how digital assessments can support more frequent low-stakes testing and provide teachers with actionable suggestions to improve practice...
Tom Cosgrove sets a challenge to educators to try more authentic methods of assesment, to remove the pressure of grades, and allow students to engage more deeply in their learning...
Through her EQP project, a student at Northampton School for Girls conducted a fascinating deep dive into how mixed methods of assessment can improve student learning, achievement and wellbeing...
