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
28th Mar 2022
White Paper: key points for teaching and learning leads
What does today’s Schools White Paper mean for teaching and learning and pastoral care? Here’s what you need to know
DfE’s Parent Pledge a ‘policy gimmick’, say heads
How education leaders are responding to today’s Schools White Paper
Friday
25th Mar 2022
Teaching and learning: 8 key talking points
We’ve rounded up the big teaching and learning insights from experts at this week’s World Education Summit
Need to know: Ofsted, tech demands and Covid mistakes
Your round-up of 91¶¶Òõ’ most popular news and features articles from the past week
GCSEs and Sats will be used in Ofsted inspections this year
DfE announcement raises fears among heads, who warn many schools have not been able to deliver the full curriculum this year due to Covid
Thursday
24th Mar 2022
Why teachers should harness the power of multiple-choice questions
Professor Elizabeth Bjork says competitive true-false questions can also help introduce the necessary level of ‘desirable difficulty’ to testing to help boost student recall
Students should be given access to the internet in exams
Professor Sugata Mitra argues this will help make exams fit for purpose in the modern world during a panel discussion on the future of assessment at the World Education Summit
Why it can’t be ‘business as usual’ with school league tables
If the DfE really is determined to publish secondary school league tables this year after all the Covid disruption, then it needs to make sure that the data is handled with care, says Steve Rollett
Wednesday
23rd Mar 2022
Music teachers urge DfE to reform Progress 8 and EBacc
Over 9 in 10 music teachers say these performance measures have ‘negatively impacted music education’
GCSEs: Design and technology take-up halves in a decade
D&T has been ‘neglected’ and ‘actively devalued’ as a subject, warns heads’ leader