Reading time: 3 minutes
Whether you’re a pupil wondering if you’re overly stressed by your exams or parents and teachers hoping to identify whether a student is stressed, here are some key points to be on the lookout for during exam season.
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Reading time: 3 minutes
The debate over the usefulness of mock exams has intensified as the new, more rigorous GCSE examinations have begun to be used across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
This has combined with renewed calls regarding student stress and whether mock exams – and exams in general – are effective as a means of teaching.
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“What grade did I get?”
“Did I get a B/6?”
“How am I doing?”
These are the common questions posed by students up and down the UK – each of which focus on a narrow view of their academic performance.
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Assessment data should be improving education standards and informing teaching approaches. Yet the lack of clarity about the intended purpose of different assessments, and the data they should generate, is always complex.
With this in mind, here we look at the five core challenges schools must overcome, if whole-school assessment is to achieve its goals.
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The consensus is that a rich blend of variables influence exam results – teaching quality, socio-economic factors, parental involvement, study strategies, teaching methods and even student genes.
But, amongst these, just how much do teaching methods impact exam results?
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Reading time: 3 minutes
Whether you’re a pupil wondering if you’re overly stressed by your exams or parents and teachers hoping to identify whether a student is stressed, here are some key points to be on the lookout for during exam season.
Read More
Reading time: 3 minutes
The debate over the usefulness of mock exams has intensified as the new, more rigorous GCSE examinations have begun to be used across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
This has combined with renewed calls regarding student stress and whether mock exams – and exams in general – are effective as a means of teaching.
Read More
Reading time: 2 minutes
“What grade did I get?”
“Did I get a B/6?”
“How am I doing?”
These are the common questions posed by students up and down the UK – each of which focus on a narrow view of their academic performance.
Read More
Reading time: 2 minutes
Assessment data should be improving education standards and informing teaching approaches. Yet the lack of clarity about the intended purpose of different assessments, and the data they should generate, is always complex.
With this in mind, here we look at the five core challenges schools must overcome, if whole-school assessment is to achieve its goals.
Read More
Reading time: 2 minutes
The consensus is that a rich blend of variables influence exam results – teaching quality, socio-economic factors, parental involvement, study strategies, teaching methods and even student genes.
But, amongst these, just how much do teaching methods impact exam results?
Read More