In all the hubbub about education research and Randomised Control Trials I have seen few signs many fully grasp the real power of this technique – randomisation of who gets the program and who does not. I think closer consideration will excite educationalists at its potential to cut through the fog to give us a…
It’s a rule that any performance indicator with any consequence will eventually become corrupted, its human nature to find shortcuts and loopholes. Previous blogs here highlight how many commenters expect Progress 8 may be gamed, by putting every less academic child into History and Geography in the hope of scraping a grade that counts towards…
It’s Geography, that’s the worst thing about Progress 8, just Geography. One of the schools I work in is more deprived and urban than most, they do well in English, did well in Maths previously so can do it again, same for science and I can see them doing alright with modern foreign Languages, (it’s…
One view of education is to maximise the number of pupils that achieve a level worth a damn to further study and employers, it takes the stance ‘let’s face it, what’s the point of a D in Home Economics, in the real world’. It says lets churn out as many of those who can engage…
My main impression of ResearchEd 2014 was formed by Andrew Old’s talk on how to argue. Everything I thought after it was structured along the lines set out. It seems to me this was the most apposite educational talk I have ever heard, placed as it was in this stage of the debate to that…
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