captures the incandescence ofthese mass partiesthrough 16-year-old Tara’s disorderly teen lens, befuddled by a cocktail of hormones, peer pressure, and future uncertainty following the discovery of her GCSE exam results. The film does a truly flawless job at encapsulating the very essence of Tar...
“How challenging did you find it to think of __ ways?”“If you had to think of one more way, how difficult would that be?” The factorial validity of the measure was supported by confirmatory factor analysis, which indicated that the assumption of unidimensionality was reasonable. In ...
For the first four or five years of a school created in these circumstances, you have to add value just to keep the results standing still."These targets placed further uncertainty on the future of the school, which had an immediate effect on the self-confidence of the students and staff....
However, many of the measures we use in education are only meaningful in relation to the performance of the cohort. This was true of levels and is true of GCSE grades 1-9. It’s also true, by definition, of standardised test scores. Essentially these are all bell-curve position markers....
One morning last November, more than 100 head teachers woke up to find that their schools had been dubbed the worst in Britain. They also faced closure under a new "three strikes and you're out" policy, unless their exam results improved.At a first glance, the schools appeared to have ...
During this time of uncertainty, you cannot allow parent communication channels to close. “Comms is hugely important and it is crucial you model it well to staff and early as you can,” says Soar. “You need short, simple, clear messages.” But that’s not as simple as it sounds. Ho...
No business is risk free, so you need to judge the level of danger correctly and then be sufficiently well prepared to live with the consequences. • What is your response to uncertainty - do you find this exciting rather than worrying? Are you prepared for changing markets, competition, ...
Another high school teacher, Max, supported his school’s sustainability focus but felt constrained by both the IB and General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) curriculum, saying: there is a small nod to—it used to be the millennium development goals and now it’s the sustainability ...