Finding consensus amidst chaos - our reflections on education policy and the next election #rethinkassessment The Edge Foundation Professor Bill Lucas Rachel Macfarlane Rachel Sylvester Big Education 🌎 Aspirations Academies Trust Voice 21 Oracy Skills Builder Partnership Frank Norris Sarah Seleznyov rethinkingassessment.com/rethinking-blo…

Adolescence is a time of sensitivity & high neuroplasticity, dominated by high stakes exams. Should it be this way? A cognitive neuroscientist ⁦⁦Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore⁩ and a child psychiatrist ⁦Professor Tamsin Ford 💙⁩ speak. rethinkingassessment.com/rethinking-blo…

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Education leaders from across the UK and international context coming together to discuss what change in education could look like

High Technology High School XP Trust The Wood Foundation Rethinking Assessment SERC Professor Bill Lucas Olly Newton King Alfred School Big Education 🌎 Bohunt Education Trust UTC South Durham

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Rethinking Assessment are looking for school to join the next phase of their Assessing Creative Thinking programme, which will be led by Professor Bill Lucas and the Australian Council for Education Research UK.

Apply by 14 Oct

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We need to consider a system beyond just grades which play such a high stakes role in determining a young persons future at 16, says Ollie Green in powerful new blog for Rethinking Assessment echoing 'Misasing the mark' by Dennis Sherwood Big Education 🌎
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Great piece in Sept's Teach Secondary with Steve Kenning discussing why our ATL No Limits Curriculum points the way for a better form of assessment & our partnership with The Edge Foundation Olly Newton

Thank you Callum Fauser

Read all here:
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Fascinating blog from Dennis Sherwood Dennis Sherwood about the impact of grade reliability on HE places. Rethinking Assessment Mary Curnock Cook
hepi.ac.uk/2022/09/07/are…

As we are in exam results fortnight, I thought I'd share what one member of The Foundation for Education Development's Parents' & Carers' Council had to say about what we assess.
Interestingly, FED's Business Leaders & Learners say the same thing.

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Tune into The Times and The Sunday Times radio at 3pm to hear from Dennis Sherwood on unreliable grades at A Level on #AlevelResultsDay2022

Thinking of all the young people with their #ALevels results today. For anyone disappointed, just know your grades don't define you & shouldn't stop you following your dreams.

Here's a great chat I had with Big Change & a group of students at School 21.

#exams #resultsday

Congratulations to everyone collecting their results today!

We applaud the perseverance shown by our students over the last few years.

The Edge Foundation continues to advocate for a relevant education system so that every young person can achieve their potential. buff.ly/3CdhqDc

Yvonne Williams 💙 Yes, that's what's already being done by lots of great people including this report from earlier this year from teachers, parents, students, academics, employers, policy makers etc
But there are other excellent groups like Rethinking Assessment too
neweraassessment.org.uk/findings

Congratulations to everyone on results day!

Evidence shows we must urgently reconsider our current assessment system. This can include introducing a broad learner profile to better evidence the strengths of all our learners. Learn more buff.ly/3H9jSLh

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I've just been invited to be interviewed about unreliable grades on the Mariella Frostrup show tomorrow, Thursday - A level results day. So do tune in to Times Radio at about 3 pm!
Canbury Press Higher Education Policy Institute Times Radio Mariella Frostrup

thetimes.co.uk/radio/schedule

Why no mention of Ofqual's acknowledgement that grades are 'reliable to one grade either way'? This is fundamental: to quote the Rethinking Assessment 'manifesto', 'if you get a B grade at A level, it could equally have been an A or a C'. Rethinking Assessment Higher Education Policy Institute Canbury Press