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When it comes to formative assessments and summative assessments, if you're a

As a teacher, you know how important it is to have a clear plan in place for assessing pupils’ performance. Formative assessment, in ...

Progress 8 was introduced in 2016 for all schools with the intention of ensuring students are studying a broad and ...

The academic year of 2016/2017 was the first in which Progress 8 and Attainment 8 were introduced to ensure all students were studying a broad and balanced curriculum.

Marking students’‭ ‬work and providing them with feedback to relay to them how they are performing is crucial to their own personal ...

Marking, although time consuming, is paramount to students’ progression. It is considered by Ofsted as instrumental to the quality of teaching ...