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  • This is the power of a little tin badge

    I got this email yesterday from Dr. Mandy Heddle, who teaches in a high-achieving British International School. I have permission to share the story, but I’ll not name the school so as to stay out of their Google searches. I wanted to share with you that I have a student I have mentored since she was 11…

  • John Hattie’s top three influences on student achievement: you already do at least two of them.

    John Hattie is the educational guru du jour, and with good reason. He has the research on his side. If you have not seen his graded list of 138 Influences on Student Achievement, the whole thing is here. Expect to find his Visible Learning on your CPD menu for the coming year. I want to focus…

  • Assessment is sampling, and this has consequences

    The structure of knowledge is a complex thing. Very rarely can it be codified as a simple set of statements. There are facts, yes, but also links, opinions, metaphors, context, images (both mental and physical) and much more to boot. Exam boards put enormous effort into trying to distinguish between those students who have ‘got…

  • Monitoring progression in fine detail

    Imagine having a detailed profile of the progression of every student, in every subject, not just by grade or even by topic, but right down to the level of concepts known, understood and evaluated.

  • Pro tips on uploading student data ready for September

    When setting up Yacapaca for the new year, you should have two aims: Minimise your own workload, of course Maintain continuity of student data. Why? …because Yacapaca’s famed ability to individualise the learning experience depends on its existing knowledge of the individual …because the analytics will show useful trends provided their is past data to…