Hello, Andrew. Thank you very much for creating this list. Useful and much appreciated. It would be lovely to be added to it.
All the very best with your exciting next steps, Dawn!
A really interesting read. Thank you! I am seven years in post, fortunate to still love and appreciate it greatly. I agree that it takes at least 3-4 years to learn the thing i.e. better know the role and the community you represent. Also know that I am still learning about it all every single week.
Thank you. This was really helpful and is appreciated.
A good read, thank you. I look forward hopefully to reading more blog posts along the way. Head of Department is one of the greatest jobs - enjoy the ride!
Let’s continue to grow this platform in the manner it has started - a wonderfully collegiate, informative, interesting space for educators everywhere. Hurrah! @collegeofteaching.bsky.social@ascl-uk.bsky.social
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Should add that Cambridge University Press bought CEM a few years ago but the actual research is still based at Durham, I think.
From that they can say what grades at A Level and GCSE a student with those scores typically attains. Schools use it to measure progress along the way. Retrospectively CEM tell each school how much value they have or haven’t added and if it’s statistically significant. 2/2
The Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring. Been run from Durham University for 30 odd years. They do computer adaptive baseline tests of lots of children (most from independent sector) each year, somewhere around 30,000 each year from memory, so have decades of ‘big data’. 1/2
Agree that Value Added is the best measure we have. CEM is the best I have known for how we measure it. Caveats are that it is less useful for subjects with fewer pupils and also for the creative and performing arts.