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@Montypography @MichaelRosenYes @IOE_London We totally agree with this, and often come across it in our test centres. Too often tests designed for evaluative purposes become a thing that needs to be 'beaten' or 'passed'. We see so much stress - in students and parents - when the outcomes are low stakes and designed to help
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Montytweets
Montytweets@Montypography·
@MichaelRosenYes @IOE_London Don't bash the tests themselves. Perhaps bash how they are being used and the lack of clarity behind their purpose.
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Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷@MichaelRosenYes·
John Jerrim, Professor of Education and Social Statistics, @IOE_London : “The tests [ie SATs] play a fundamental role feeding into school accountability metrics and our findings suggest they should continue in their current form for the foreseeable future.” (Guardian today)
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Rethinking Assessment
Rethinking Assessment@rethinkassessmt·
If unis use a variety of assessment methods, we do our pupils a disservice by only exposing them to one type in schools... @RobertLobatto2 @Tamsin_J_Ford @BettinaHohnen @LucasLearn @PeterHyman21 @AKMPeterson
Al McConville@AGMcconville

86% of top undergraduate courses do not only use exams to assess final outcomes. Variety abounds. So why are schools so wedded to the exam paper? Great blog here from @RMacfarlaneEdu exemplifying a more enlightened approach. @rethinkassessmt @sjblakemore rethinkingassessment.com/rethinking-blo…

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Intac Network@IntacNetwork·
- and smart assessments to identify exactly what parts have been missed so they can be targeted effectively. And before I hear "Not more testing", I don't mean tests and exams, I mean low-stakes evaluations to establish any gaps, so interventions are at their most valuable
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Intac Network@IntacNetwork·
Massively worried about what this might consist of ...gov.uk/government/new… As the sorts of example cited at this stage is simply more online learning. Opportunities to participate, interact, get outside and socialise will be needed as soon as safely possible -
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Intac Network@IntacNetwork·
Super Article in the Observer this weekend on the opportunities to make positive and much-needed changes to some of our learning systems. Well worth a read: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Montytweets
Montytweets@Montypography·
True. For high stakes exams when fees are at a premium. Not for low stakes internal examinations - universities I think are trying to 'reduce the stakes' a little with regular lower stakes tests using this tech. A positive way forward for some.
Intac Network@IntacNetwork

Really interesting and well-researched article here from Vox magazine on some of the pitfalls of online proctoring for exams. At Intac we love digital solutions but see an enduring need for test centres for high stakes examinations in the future vox.com/recode/2020/5/…

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Intac Network@IntacNetwork·
Really interesting and well-researched article here from Vox magazine on some of the pitfalls of online proctoring for exams. At Intac we love digital solutions but see an enduring need for test centres for high stakes examinations in the future vox.com/recode/2020/5/…
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Intac Network@IntacNetwork·
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Intac Network@IntacNetwork·
@dylanwiliam Having experienced the limitations of the early years health checks at two, and then nothing until kids are in a setting. So many slip through the cracks in the most formative stages of development. And so much resource required later to undo missed opportunities...
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Dylan Wiliam
Dylan Wiliam@dylanwiliam·
"Parents as Teachers"—a home-visiting program developed in the US to help parents understand normal and delayed development, and reduce neglect and abuse in early childhood—improved the behaviour, development and language skills of Swiss 3-year-olds: bit.ly/3e2wDbs ($)
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Intac Network@IntacNetwork·
It is a worrying time in the UK independent school sector - with many schools in financial difficulty even before the recent crisis. A 7 min well-researched read here from the FT... ft.com/content/f9289e…
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