A paper on the benefits of testing. In this case more focused on retrieval than assessment
Ethan Mollick@emollick
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Peter Ford
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Curriculum manager in HE/FE. Masters in E-Tech and PhD in Ed' Research. Research and development director in a software house prior to education. Views my own.
Manchester, England Beigetreten Ocak 2014
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This shows occupations in demand.
The report supports the introduction of foundation & shorter #apprenticeships to better align with evolving labour market demands & needs.
Plus, stronger careers guidance pre-19; we need that earlier in school too!
AI only mentioned twice!
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I'm doing a special offer of 50% off any online training taking place in June and July 2025 (subject to availability). Get in touch via my website quoting SUMMER50 to make a booking. Popular topics include behaviour, adaptive teaching and self-regulation. Please RT. Thank you!
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Interesting but you can't help feeling that education is far too ideological in its ambitions for assessment. Only 11 % of Oxbridge students are working class. Socio-economic circumstance is the best indicator of success. All educational assessments do is certify that reality.
Amanda Spielman@amanda_spielman
1. Assessment myths are swirling again, especially around GCSEs, and especially around GCSE maths. So here’s an attempt to explain some of the issues that often seem to flummox people.
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Without ambitious policy change, child poverty is projected to increase dramatically over the next decade.
In fact, should the Government continue with existing policy, our projections suggest child
poverty will hit 33 per cent in 2029-30, a level not seen since 1998-99.
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@AndyPeacock999 Was Winston Churchill a Socialist or MacMillan or Ted Heath. Just asking for a friend.
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So we've had 46 disastrous years of the Thatcher neoliberal experiment.
It doesn't work for the British people.
Can we try something different like the experiment that gave us long standing succeses: NHS , social security and public housing?
Socialism .
bigissue.com/news/housing/r…
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@stoneman_claire @Counsell_C AI knows more than we do but it is inherently biased. because knowledge production is biased. Knowledge does not give you agency it is a tool, which you wield. Pitching an argument against AI on the basis of knowledge is like challenging Mike Tyson to a bare knuckle fight.
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“As a teacher and principal, I am a custodian of knowledge and a steward of creativity.” More gold from @stoneman_claire
Claire Stoneman@stoneman_claire
*New post* A new topic for me, and with thanks to @MrEwanMorrison for making me think On AI and the death of art birminghamteacher.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/on-…
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@michael_merrick The biggest challenge facing education is who will own the AI that replaces teachers...!
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10) or, contra the above, an emergence of a totalitarian state, school as a tool of a political (ie not just cultural) ideology
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The overton window has shifted almost beyond imagining in the last 18 months. Let's play a game - let's imagine the same was to happen in education; things currently unimaginable suddenly possible, even desirable. What would they be? Tag @miss_mcinerney @profbeckyallen @Trivium21c
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I would suspect this is an over simplification and more time is needed to assess the impact of increased Capital Gains taxes but it highlights the ongoing challenge of taxing wealth.
Alex Recouso@recouso
🇬🇧 The recent capital gains tax increase in the UK was expected to bring additional tax revenue. Instead, high-net-worth individuals and families are leaving the country, leading to a 10% fall in net capital gains tax revenue. Welcome to the Laffer curve, suckers.
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Early career teachers and their mentors have struggled with a 'high and complex' workload, a review of the government’s Early Career Framework has found
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@michael_merrick @JustinG92785123 I think ingenuity, political stability, liberal institutions, technological advancement and an education system that turned out people who offered more than 'it was the empire wot done it' also helped. The economic benefits of empire, as you say, is contested.
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@JustinG92785123 Questionable - there seems to be some revisionism going on with this, with the argument the economic effect was either small or net drain
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We are forever looking to reignite Victorian levels of energy and innovation and optimism but we never consider if we might first need Victorian levels of moral and spiritual renewal
Gavin Rice@gavinantonyrice
🚨The most important graph in British politics👇 Why are average wages no higher than in 2008? The argument for capitalism is that gradually everyone becomes better off. But for 17 years that hasn't been happening. Why is Britain's economy stuck?🧵
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🚨The most important graph in British politics👇
Why are average wages no higher than in 2008?
The argument for capitalism is that gradually everyone becomes better off.
But for 17 years that hasn't been happening.
Why is Britain's economy stuck?🧵
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@StephenVainker They also criticise Bruner and then say: 'However, a recent renewal of appreciation for the role of knowledge in human cognition, building on David Ausubel's (1968) view that people learn new things by building on their own current knowledge', which is pure Vygotsky.
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@EdSacredProfane It doesn't try to be objective. The glowing section on reforms in Portugal, 2011-2015 was written by....the Minister for Education in Portugal, 2011-2015.
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Stephen Vainker@StephenVainker
Also there's a blatant conflict of interest here. The article includes a glowing account of the reforms in Portugal 2011-2015, seemingly written by.... the Minister of Education in Portugal, 2011-2015 (@CratoNuno). This isn't acknowledged anywhere. Political advocacy or science?
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Ultimately, you can't disagree with the premise that knowledge is an important construct in education but I still find it challenging the way the authors cite other academics many of whom had long and well respected careers.
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@Trivium21c It's a bit Thatcherite to talk about economics in terms of house keeping but it depends how pedantic you want to be. You can pay all your bills and create debt...! I thought the more interesting point is that core Tory values, like paying bills, contributed to the problem.
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@EdSacredProfane Try this: do they always pay their bills? No.
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The hilarious thing about this is what conservatives in the UK did with the level of national debt
Thomas Sowell Quotes@ThomasSowell
“Good conservatives always pay their bills. Unlike socialists, who just run up other people's.” — Margaret Thatcher
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@Trivium21c I presumed you were mocking Conservatives for not pursuing their core value of paying bills. My point is they pursued it to the detriment of growth, which was their contribution to debt largely emergent from the 2008 crisis and Covid but also from Tories pursuit of paying bills
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@EdSacredProfane Can you parse “Good conservatives always pay their bills. Unlike socialists, who just run up other people's” for me?
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@MarkavisOrg @Miss_Snuffy Lol it was both a fact and it amused me. I apologise, I have no doubt you are far more eloquent than I.
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@EdSacredProfane @Miss_Snuffy Nice little put down - "more eloquently" - we are on X. I am sure you would find my PhD to be very eloquent too, as it was a PhD by papers 😉 - all published in leading journals. So you can put your unearned superiority to bed.
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My article in the Telegraph on why ‘qualified’ teacher status is a con.
‘Qualified’ simply means ‘certified’.
And that certificate is meaningless.
Anyone who runs a school knows this.
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@TeacherToolkit Yes all you need is two echo chambers for educational academics to exist in and ruthlessly gatekeep.....!
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🚀 NEW BLOG
🤔 Can both of these learning styles studies be right?
🔗 bit.ly/43ncPu1
🗣️ Two major studies. opposite conclusions.
One says learning styles don’t work. The other says they do.
Which should teachers trust?
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@MarkavisOrg @Miss_Snuffy I said the same but much more eloquently. Plenty of good theory that underpins good practice but @Miss_Snuffy does not call for a renewal of qualifications rather they are worthless. Accountants don't qualify as good accountants nor lawyers. @Miss_shuffy would have to clarify.
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@EdSacredProfane @Miss_Snuffy The head of a stunningly successful school that has rejected much of what the educational establishment has proposed as good practice, based on shonky theory.
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