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Measuring Progress in Education

At the 10th Annual Festival of Education, held at the beautiful Wellington College, CEM hosted a...

Evidence-Based Education: Who should be doing what?

Being a teacher is hard enough, without spending unnecessary amounts of time on practices that just...

Serious critiques of meta-analysis and effect size: researchED 2018

By Rob Coe

Since I became a researcher in the late 1990s, I have been an advocate of using effect...

Teachers need greater support in order to understand and maximise the value of assessment in their classrooms

A new report, Testing the Water: How assessment can underpin, not undermine, great teaching,...

How can teachers learn to be better teachers?

By Professor Rob Coe

Download Professor Rob Coe’s presentation from the 2017 Festival of Education....

What makes great assessment?

Almost 20 years ago, at the very tail-end of the last century, Professor Rob Coe published his...