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What have we learnt from the new assessment and accountability arrangements? Practical next steps

September 15, 2016March 19, 2018Oxford Primary

The first few weeks of a new school year usually involves both looking forward and looking back. The summer of 2016 saw an almost completely new set of national assessment and accountability arrangements and schools are analysing how they’ve done and pondering the implications for the years ahead. We don’t have all the results yet […]

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Updated: Practical steps for accountability

April 11, 2016April 11, 2016Oxford Primary

In a previous blog post, I summarised the criteria of the two school accountability measures that will be used in 2016 – for floor standards and for ‘coasting schools’. For most schools, the main implication of the new measures will be to place a greater emphasis on progress – the progress which every pupil makes during the […]

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Primary School Accountability in 2016

January 29, 2016January 29, 2016Oxford Primary

Today the DfE published a document called Primary school accountability in 2016. Although it is mainly concerned with the technical aspects of how the accountability measures for 2016 will be calculated, it gives a handy overview for schools about what will be reported in 2016. This includes how progress measures will be calculated, which is very different to the current […]

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Practical steps for accountability

December 10, 2015March 19, 2018Oxford Primary

In a previous blog post, I summarised the criteria of the two school accountability measures that will be used in 2016 – for floor standards and for ‘coasting schools’. For most schools, the main implication of the new measures will be to place a greater emphasis on progress – the progress which every pupil makes during the […]

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