Rebecca Allen. Measuring changes in pupil attainment is at the heart of our work as education researchers. It is a practice that is also routinely carried out in schools to monitor pupil progress and teaching quality. One means of doing…
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What can short standardised tests tell us about the attainment and progress of individual pupils and of schools?
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What is schooling for in the age of AI?
IOE Events. Although estimates of the impact of automation on the labour market vary widely, it is generally agreed that the ‘fourth industrial revolution’, and especially the advance of AI, is set to transform how we live and work. The…
Tagged with: AI, creativity, Non-cognitive
Posted in Education policy, IOE debates, Schools, Uncategorized
Posted in Education policy, IOE debates, Schools, Uncategorized
Educators: are you ready, willing and able to meet the ‘perfect storm’ of AI?
Rose Luckin. Today the House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence launched their report with a question: AI in the UK: ready, willing and able? Their answer is a classic cocktail of yes, but not really. We are certainly…
Tagged with: AI and education, House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence
Posted in Education policy, ICT in education, Uncategorized
Posted in Education policy, ICT in education, Uncategorized
What kinds of activities will encourage more students from disadvantaged backgrounds to keep studying science?
Tamjid Mujtaba. I have worked on a range of projects as a mixed-methods researcher over the years although none as quite exciting as Chemistry for All, a longitudinal project funded in 2014 by the The Royal Society of Chemistry. Why…
Tagged with: participation in science, science education, social mobility
Posted in Research matters, Teaching, learning, curriculum & assessment, Uncategorized
Posted in Research matters, Teaching, learning, curriculum & assessment, Uncategorized
We need to talk about subjects – and to know what great subject-specific professional development looks like
Philippa Cordingley and Toby Greany. We need to talk about how teachers become expert – not just at teaching, but at teaching across different subjects. All too often in education we get side-tracked by debates about issues such as high…
Tagged with: CPD, Teaching
Posted in accountability and inspection, Education policy, International comparisons, Leadership and management, Teachers, Uncategorized
Posted in accountability and inspection, Education policy, International comparisons, Leadership and management, Teachers, Uncategorized
