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PREDICTED GRADES ASSESSMENT 2020 – AN OPPORTUNITY FOR FRESH THINKING?

October 8, 2020

In a January 2020 pre-Covid blog I commented on school-leaving assessment via the anvil of terminal examinations. These examinations were  thrown into very sharp relief in recent months, in England, Ireland and at the International Baccalaureate Organisation for example, as authorities struggled to publish accurate predicted grade results for the class of 2020 in their…
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THE ANVIL OF TERMINAL SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS

January 2, 2020

Increasingly throughout my career, first as a teacher and later as a school leader I have been exercised by the conundrum of how should we assess fairly within schools and, most significantly, at school leaving examination time. For this terminal examination, in large measure, is the tool employed across the world to recognise the achievements,…
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