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5 top tips for NQTs to crack assessment

Your first year of teaching presents you with a wealth of challenges. How do you manage behaviour? How do you cope with the workload? How can you do your best? How will you know if you are a good teacher?

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Measuring Progress in Education

At the 10th Annual Festival of Education, held at the beautiful Wellington College, we (as the Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring, CEM, now Cambridge...

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Losing track of your data?

Under the 2018 Ofsted framework, inspectors were advised to “ignore all tracking data” and from September 2019 Ofsted’s goal was to view performance...

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Celebrating World Teachers Day

‘Teaching is far and away the most important of all professions. Teachers make more difference to more people’s lives, in a way that more people feel...

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Signs of progress: what can we learn from results?

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” - Benjamin Franklin.

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Spotlight on Research – getting to grips with what’s available

“We need to make sure that research findings get into the hands of teachers in ways that are most likely to have an impact. We know how challenging...

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Sense and Accountability

The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) has published a report today calling for reforms to the system for judging England’s primary...

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Assessment and accountability

How many webpages, teacher forums and parent chat rooms abound with acerbic, defensive and downright despondent comments on the system of...

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Navigating Evidence

In recent months there has been a real surge of interest in the ways that evidence and research can be used to help support and improve teaching and...

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Let’s give teachers the information they need to improve children’s academic outcomes

Since the early 1990s, Cambridge Insight (formerly CEM) has offered a baseline assessment for primary schools. We know it is vital that teachers have...

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