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Education, assessment and technology by Daisy Christodoulou & Dr Chris Wheadon
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Governed by alchemists (opens the original)
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This is part one of a multi-part series on the history of transferable skills. You can read the introduction here and listen to me discussing it on the EconTalk podcast here. Hong Xiuquan was a clever boy. He began studying classical texts when he was just seven years old, and within a few years he’d memorised the Four Books and the Five Classics, the Confucian texts at the heart of the Chinese curriculum. His teachers were so impressed by
What if transferable skills don’t exist? (opens the original)
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More than a decade ago, I wrote a book called Seven Myths About Education. Since then, people have often asked me which of those seven myths I think is the most important, or which has proved the hardest to kill.I think it is number 5 - “we should teach transferable skills”, and that’s because it is one of the myths whose influence extends furthest beyond education.Thanks for reading No More Marking! This post is public so feel free to share it.<a
The difficulty of the Guardian Crossword, 1930 to 2026 (opens the original)
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Comparative Judgement is especially good at measuring the relative difficulty of different assessments. In the past we’ve used it to measure the relative difficulty of A-level maths over a 50-year period. In this article we present data on the relative difficulty of the Guardian crossword over 100 years! Enjoy! (And if you’re more interested in using Comparative Judgement for school assessment, we’ve just released a new tranche of dates to talk to
What should we do about the “forgotten third”? (opens the original)
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In a previous article, I argued that the government’s plan for more vocational education at 14 was not a good one.I’ve had a lot of positive responses to that article. In particular, a lot of people accepted my point that vocational education in this country often conflates two groups of students: the 10-15% of students with an interest and aptitude in technical education, and the 30-40% who struggle to get grade 4+ GCSEs in English and maths.However, there was also one persistent question, alon
Solving GCSE mocks with Comparative Judgement (opens the original)
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Over the last ten years, we’ve worked with about 2,000 schools to assess approximately 3 million pieces of writing using Comparative Judgement.Until 2025, we used human judges only. Since 2025, we’ve added the option of AI judges, which reduces the time it takes to judge and provides detailed feedback.Whether you use human or AI judges, this approach works extremely well, and we have a lot of dedicated fans! In our ideal world, we’d love to see it adopted at a nationa
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