Exams do have a purpose, but they shouldn’t be used to assess the recall of meaningless facts.
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Teaching students skills such as creative thinking and problem solving will become part of the curriculum from 2017. But in order to assess these capabilities, teaching styles will have to change.
Why we should lament the sharp drop in the number of teenagers taking the one-year qualifications.
Testing takes the magic out of education – playful learning may be the answer.
A decade after they were phased out, the government could reintroduce national tests for seven-year-olds.
New look GCSEs and A-levels will be sat by young people – but they haven’t been asked about the reforms.
We could be fooled into thinking pay-for plagiarism is a modern, high-tech invention. However, the internet merely supports the logistics.
From September 2016, within five weeks of starting primary school, all children in England will receive an assessment that will stay on their record. But we have been here before and it didn’t work. The…
A Level results are in and as teenagers pore over their grades, a record number will be able to take up places at university. The results – which show a small decline in the overall pass rate for the first…
The first lessons teaching the new linear A Level, designed specifically with the preparation of students for degree-level education in mind, will be taught in schools and colleges from September 2015…
The recent move by the Uzbekistan government to block access to the internet – coincidentally on the same day as national university entrance examinations – is rather an extreme example of the ongoing…
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Associate professor, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Educational Assessment, Macquarie University
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Professor, Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University
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Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Education and Public Policy, Durham University
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Chair of ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Biotechnology, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Education, Queen's University Belfast
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Associate Professor of Education Policy and the Future of Schooling, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Modern History, University of Southampton
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Programme Leader, MA in Educational Assessment, UCL
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Dean of the Cardiff School of Education, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Director of Research and Deputy Head of Southampton Education School, University of Southampton
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Head of School of Education and Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Wollongong
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CEO, Australian Council for Educational Research
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Associate Professor in Medical Education, The University of Western Australia
