Programming in blocks lets far more people code — but not like software engineers: Response to the Ofsted Report A May 2022 report from the UK government Research Review Series: Computing makes some strong claims about block-based programming that I think are misleading. The report is summarizing...
Notes 1. Both schools are in Cities of Sanctuary and have been evaluated as “Good’ by Ofsted. The school in Oxford was almost three times the size of the Coventry school, with twice the number of students from “minority ethnic” backgrounds. Check back for further reflections on what we...
a bigger effect is seen compared to when the outcome is more ephemeral. So, we need to be clear: what is measured has an impact on the scale of the effect. This means that we have to throw in all kinds of caveats
Although young people often claim overtly that gender does not matter, their choices and aspirations reflect otherwise (Ofsted 2011). Moreover, the inextricable linkages between the physical sciences and cleverness, in that exceptional cleverness is required for success (Avraamidou 2013; Varelas et al...
Counsell subsequently moved again, to serve on the Office for Standards in Education’s (OfSTED’s) curriculum advisory group, in 2018. 10. Counsell (2017) describes how, in spite of her involvement with the Department for Education (DfE) reshaping the future of ITE, there was no ...
Article Open access 10 June 2024 Prevalence of intrinsic capacity decline among community-dwelling older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis Article Open access 01 August 2024 References Sonnega, A., Faul, J. D., Ofstedal, M. B., Langa, K. M., Phillips, J. W., & Weir,...
(see the review byYounger et al. forthcoming) and the public discourse about educational disadvantage (Burns 2018). This may be due to its conceptual simplicity and congruence with ‘common sense’ explanations for why young people have different outcomes—or, more critically, as it deftly evades...