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PESP Invisible College 2018

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Do value-added measures of school and teacher performance reflect genetic differences between students?

Metrics of school and teacher performance are increasingly used by policymakers and in the UK education systems to determine, for example, performance-related pay and positions in school league...

Â鶹ÒùÔº Annual General Meeting 2018

The 43rd Â鶹ÒùÔº AGM will take place at 5:00pm on Monday 10th September 2018. This will be held in the County Hotel, Neville Street, Newcastle, NE1 5DF. All members are invited to attend, please...

Tea and the Queen? Researching the enactment of the British values policy in schools

This presentation seeks to make both theoretical and empirical contributions. With regard to the former, I consider issues of citizenship, belonging and values in relation to contemporary...

Â鶹ÒùÔº Conference 2018

Newcastle

The Â鶹ÒùÔº Conference 2018 was held on the 9th-12th September 2018 at Northumbria University. Keynote speakers included: Professor Carol Vincent, Professor Paul Miller, Professor Sue Dockett, and...

Blended learning: more than just equal access

When I first came across the term ‘blended learning’, I (like others) was confused as to what it referred to. The term is being used with increased frequency in academic journals and...

Â鶹ÒùÔº Bites, issue 1: Early childhood

Â鶹ÒùÔº Bites

The Â鶹ÒùÔº Bites series presents selected articles from the Â鶹ÒùÔº Blog on key topics in education, presented in an easily printable and digestible format to serve as teaching and learning resources...

Â鶹ÒùÔº Bites

The Â鶹ÒùÔº Bites series collates selected existing articles from the Â鶹ÒùÔº Blog on key topics in education, presented in an easily printable and digestible format to serve as teaching and learning...

Â鶹ÒùÔº Bites, issue 2: Educational leadership: Are our schools fit for the future?

Â鶹ÒùÔº Bites

The Â鶹ÒùÔº Bites series presents selected articles from the Â鶹ÒùÔº Blog on key topics in education, presented in an easily printable and digestible format to serve as teaching and learning resources...

DfE and NFER on baseline testing: Do they know what they do?

On 4 July 2018, the Â鶹ÒùÔº expert panel on assessment published the report A baseline without basis (Goldstein et al 2018), in response to the Department...

ECER 2018: Inclusion and Exclusion, Resources for Educational Research

Conference Dates & Venue Emerging Researchers' Conference 21 - 22 Aug Mon 9:00 - Tue 17:30 ECER Conference 22 - 25 Aug Tue 12:30 - Fri 17:30 University College...

Grammar and creativity in the English national curriculum

In November 2017 the Times Educational Supplement (TES) published an article under the headline ‘Teaching grammar does not improve children's writing ability, research finds’ (Bloom 2017)....