The Education Policy Institute (EPI) Annual Report looks at the state of education in England, with a focus on the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers. EPI’s 2025 Annual Report considers the attainment of vulnerable groups of students at the ages of 5, 11, 16 and by 18. The report analyses attainment gaps based … Continue reading The Education Policy Institute (EPI) Annual Report
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Key stage 2 attainment
The Department for Education has published provisional attainment statistics for key stage 2 national curriculum assessments in England. This shows that the gap between disadvantaged pupils’ key stage 2 SATs results and all other pupils has fallen to 3.12, from 3.21 in 2023. However, it is still a wider gap than the 2.91 gap index … Continue reading Key stage 2 attainment
PISA 2022: National Report for England
The DfE has just published (December 2023) the The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report which compares results for 15-year-old pupils in England with countries around the world. In the introduction, the report notes that (for England's results): higher performing pupils may be overrepresented in the final sample and some of the PISA results … Continue reading PISA 2022: National Report for England
Were the year 6 SAT English reading tests more difficult than previous years?
There has been a lot of media coverage on the apparent difficulty of this year's SATs English reading tests. You can read the official government repsonse here, where they describe the process by which the tests are created and trialled. The conclusion is that "Evidence from these processes indicated that the tests were of similar … Continue reading Were the year 6 SAT English reading tests more difficult than previous years?
Unleashing the Power of Chat GPT in Education!
A thought provoking article from primary school teacher Faheemah Vachhiat puts forward some positive thoughts about the controversial AI-based chatbot Chat GPT. She provides excamples in English and Maths lessons, and posits that it can be a useful tool in lesson preparation. She doesn't tackle the issue of use by children to provide homework answers - … Continue reading Unleashing the Power of Chat GPT in Education!
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