Peter Wolstencroft and Georgina Gretton, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
In his seminal RSA (Royal Society of Arts) lecture, Sir Ken Robinson summed up th...
It is 20 years since the National Advisory Committee on Creative and Cultural Education (NACCCE, 1999) offered a simple if daunting definition of creativity:
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In 2014, I followed an interdisciplinary arts project called ‘Songlines’, delivered over two terms by The Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. It aimed to:
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Assessment is an important part of any education system. Without assessment, we cannot be sure that students are learning anything, because, as many countries h...
One of the most difficult and time-consuming tasks facing teachers is the assessment of extended pieces of writing. This article will outline some of the challe...
Comparative judgement is not a new method of assessment. It was first proposed by LL Thurstone (1927) as a means of describing 'the processes of human judgement...
In recent years, there has been a growing recognition of the need to help young people develop their abilities to use spoken language effectively. Emp...
'Imagine what a difference it would make if children knew what they were good at and what they had to do to improve.' With these stirring words, our trainer ext...
The issue that teachers face
Questions are an integral part of classroom life and essential to every teacher’s pedagogical repertoire. They are also one of the...
One of the proposals in the Department for Education’s (DfE) recent consultation on primary assessment is to introduce a school-entry assessment to act as a bas...
The abandonment of national curriculum levels has created an assessment upheaval in our schools. Alongside the difficult process of developing new internal syst...
Administrations worldwide are seeing assessment as a policy tool to achieve educational aims and objectives. The outcomes of public examinations are increasingl...
The need to define a set of ‘big ideas’ as a framework for decisions about the curriculum, pedagogy and assessment originated in the context of science educatio...
