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| 11-Mar-10 | Link found in early childhood development |
| Professor Peter Tymms, said the study's findings fitted a pattern of children's school achievements being predicted by their performance in tests of understanding from an early age, but... read more... | |
| 11-Mar-10 | Issues with Assessment Form and its Function |
| Cambridge Assessment Podcast - now available. Professor Peter Tymms explores issues involved with the form of assessments and its function. | |
| 10-Mar-10 | P scales: the state of SEN assessment |
| Twelve years after their introduction, Francis Ndaji and Peter Tymms take an in-depth look at how successful P scales have been in the assessment of children with SEN. To read the article extracted from the SEN magazine, click here. | |
| 07-Mar-10 | Teach Primary |
| As Professor Peter Tymms, who led the study, commented: "More effort needs to be spent on the most valuable years which are the earliest years. Click here for more. | |
| 31-Jan-10 | House of Commons Report Damns League Tables and Warns on School Report Cards |
| Professor Peter Tymms of Durham University told the Committee that it was not possible to know for sure what effect the report card had been in New York because there was no way of making an evidence-based assessment. Read Full article. | |
| 28-Jan-10 | Updated MidYIS Independent Schools’ Feedback for 2009/10 |
| This year’s restandardisation of Independent Schools’ baseline and predictions feedback is now available to download from the Secondary+ secure website. | |
| 06-Jan-10 | INSIGHT now also available for Year 8 pupils. |
| We are pleased to announce that our popular curriculum-embedded INSIGHT assessments for the end of Key Stage 3 are now available for Year 8 pupils in addition to the existing Year 9 system. This new addition is ideally suited to schools that follow an accelerated KS3 curriculum or that start GCSE studies in Year 9. To find out more, click here. | |
| 01-Jan-10 | Happy New Year |
| CEM would like to wish everyone a happy new year for 2010. |






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