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Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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My thanks to Bobby Grewal at Four Dwellings Academy for the awkward question. Let’s start by asking what it is we are trying to measure. At Yacapaca, we have opted for “current” grading, as that’s what the majority of our users want. This means that we are attempting to answer the question: If the student…
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Before half term, I sent a small survey to 10,000 teachers in UK secondary schools. I already knew that a popular “life after levels” alternative to NC Levels at KS3 was to extend GCSE grading all the way down to Y7, but I needed more detail to help plan our future grading strategy at Yacapaca.…
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The Peer Assessment log is a treasure trove for any teacher who wants to gain a deeper understanding of their students. If you want to know how students really think and write, don’t read their essays, read what they write for consumption by
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Notwithstanding my general preference for state, non-selective, secular schooling, I am fascinated by Prof James Tooley’s work promoting the value of low-cost private schools. These two recent articles are well worth your time: School choice has worked in India. But we need to compare like with like. Private or Public: Does the proliferation of low-fee/low-cost private…
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Whilst running this term’s authoring CPD, I started getting really bugged that to get from the Activity Log view to the Detail view, I had to go via the Assignments page and Actions dropdown. We’ve never had a single complaint about this, so maybe it’s just me, but nevertheless, time to do something about it. So,…
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