Government listens to concerns about assessment
Government publishes responses to primary assessment and Rochford review consultations.
Category: Assessment campaign
KS2 data released: NAHT calls for fairer accountability
Test results are only part of the picture when judging success.
Phonics check risks distorting learning, says NAHT
Rather than focus on high stakes tests, we must trust professionals to use continual, low-level assessments to reinforce learning
Education committee call for end to ‘high stakes’ assessment
Commenting on the Education Select Committee's report on primary assessment, Russell Hobby, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT says:
Anne Lyons’ Conference Speech 2017
'For Leaders, For Learners; Building an Ambitious Future'
Primary assessment consultation published
Vital step towards a better system
Abandoning phonics check for older children to be welcomed
Retaking phonics screening adds to workload and does not deliver for pupils
2016 assessment data should not have been published
Russell Hobby - "this data is not worth the paper it is written on"
End the misuse of assessment, says NAHT
Russell Hobby comments on primary assessment ahead of his appearance before the Education Select Committee
Teachers sustain performance in face of structural change
NAHT response to the PISA report 2015