Supporting student development across subjects with baseline assessments
Effective teaching strategies involve understanding the whole student, and baseline assessments...
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Examining achievement levels in multi-academy trusts
By Lucy Baker and Suzanne Tipping, Assessment Advisors, Cambridge CEM
Multi-academy trusts (MATs)...
Working with schools in Southeast Asia to understand what contributes to success in education
In February and March 2023, CEM’s Dr Irenka Suto, Assistant Director of Assessment & Research, and...
Does predictive data limit ambition or maximise potential?
The short answer: it all depends on how you use the data.
Teachers are not fortune tellers or...
Why does vocabulary matter?
A good vocabulary is an important building block for helping young children to communicate...
Is it time to ditch ‘Differentiation’?
By Greg Ashman
I suspect I would struggle to find a teacher who has never heard of...
Finding the ‘Sweet Spot’ of Teaching, Learning and Assessment
By Mark Frazer, Teaching and Learning Lead, CEM
In my previous blog post, I considered some of the...
Data matters
There is broad agreement in research that effective use of data is vital to school improvement. We...
Reporting the evidence: what research can tell us about how assessment data is used
Katharine Bailey is Director of Policy here at CEM, and for many years she has been working with...