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The book scrutiny monster

On June 27, 2019June 28, 2019 By Becky Allen4 Comments

I thought I had nothing to say about Ofsted's proposed use of book scrutiny because there is no research on book scrutiny (I wonder why?!?). As far I am concerned, even if Ofsted's own research could show inspectors can rate books with 100% consistency, it would still be a terrible idea. The effect of the …

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