Opinion

There’s an elephant in the room of school improvement. A massive, ever-present, roaming elephant standing right in front of CPD providers, school leaders, governors and, indeed, policy-makers. [...]

I don’t often post personal musings, as this is Evidence Based Education’s blog, rather than my own soapbox. However, given the fact that we work with schools, and that our mission is [...]

This blog post is inspired by the work of Dr Gwyneth Hughes, who researches on ipsative assessment. This is a form of assessment which compares the current performance of a student to their [...]

Imagine you were the person charged with ensuring that a Research School had a ‘soft landing’ in your area – the person focused on helping to connect the dots between the RS and all other [...]

And how do you know? Every school has an assessment framework, but is it fit for purpose? Schools use assessment daily, and it can be difficult to stop, step back and review the approach to [...]