Assessment

The latest news and analysis on exams in the UK, including key dates, timetables, results and statistics for Sats, GCSEs and A levels

Monday

25th Mar 2024

‘Sats results should not be public for next two years’
NAHT’s James Bowen explains why the lack of progress data for the cohort of primary pupils set to sit key stage 2 Sats would make it unfair to publish outcomes
File do not open SATs

Sunday

24th Mar 2024

91¶¶Òõ Scotland’s 10 questions with... Claire Chisholm
The Lomond School principal on the importance of humility in leaders, getting Scottish education out of limbo and why a school is no place for procrastination or preaching
Claire Chisholm

Thursday

21st Mar 2024

Cambridge warns over PM plan to ditch ‘A level’ name
There is also not enough school space or teachers to deliver Rishi Sunak’s Advanced British Standard plan, its exam board OCR warns
OCR warns PM over plan to ditch A levels
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Wednesday

20th Mar 2024

Advanced British Standard: 5 issues raised by heads
Union warns that the government consultation on creating a new post-16 qualification is ‘fundamentally flawed’
Headteachers leaders have responded to the government's plans to create a new Advanced British Standard.
Sats and staff wellbeing: getting the balance right
A trust leader outlines how they ensure Year 6 teachers do not feel overly pressured by Sats and know they are just another waypoint during children’s time at school
Milestone waymarkers Key stage 2

Monday

18th Mar 2024

Girls’ reading and maths harder hit by Covid
Education Policy Institute and Renaissance report also reveals the ongoing regional divide in outcomes following pandemic
Girls’ reading and maths harder hit by Covid

Friday

15th Mar 2024

GCSEs 2024: Exam board to trial AI in summer exams
The country’s biggest exam board will test how AI can be used to provide ‘quality assurance’ to human marking
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Sir Ian Bauckham: We discard pen-and-paper exams ‘at our peril’
In his first interview since taking up the role of interim chief regulator at Ofqual, Sir Ian speaks exclusively to 91¶¶Òõ about online assessment, the attainment gap and the need for stability
Ian Bauckham

Thursday

14th Mar 2024

Suspended students ‘a year behind at GCSE’
Report calls for schools to be given the resources they need to reduce suspensions
Year behind exams

Tuesday

12th Mar 2024

Sir Kevan: Tighten rules so top state schools take poor pupils
Former ‘catch-up tsar’ Sir Kevan Collins warns of a ‘strange pattern’ of high-performing schools not reflecting local communities
Sir Kevan Collins warns that some top performing schools do not have an intake which reflects the poverty of their surrounding community.

Monday

11th Mar 2024

How to get peer assessment right
Peer feedback and assessment has the potential to improve learning and cut teacher workload, says Alex Quigley, so why isn’t it used more often in the classroom?
How to get peer assessment right

Friday

8th Mar 2024

AQA delays rollout of digital languages exams
The reading and listening components of GCSE Italian and Polish will no longer be sat online from 2026, the exam board announces
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