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Poor attainment data often comes too late!

On December 1, 2018February 24, 2019 By Becky Allen4 Comments

It's time to get positive about data. The right kind of data.In my blogpost on the question of why we cannot easily measure progress, I explained why short, one-hour tests are rarely reliable enough to tell us anything interesting about whether or not a student has made sufficient progress over the course of a year. …

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Meaningless data is meaningless

On November 5, 2018February 24, 2019 By Becky Allen7 Comments

It’s not easy to contribute to a government report with recommendations when your modus operandi is explaining what’s gone wrong in schools, then declare it tricky to fix. But making data work better in schools is what I, alongside a dozen teachers, heads, inspectors, unions and government officials, were ask to write about. Our starting …

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