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Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · 2h

📈 We find evidence of discontinuities in favour of female students & against those on Free-School Meals

🎓We show that these biases have consequences for university outcomes

🎙️ Governments' considering increasing reliance on subjective assessments should take steps to mitigate this bias

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Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · 2h

📖 New Working Paper

"Measuring systematic gaps in teacher judgement: A new approach"

😷 We use the Covid-19 induced cancellation of exams, where teachers assigned student grades & rankings within grade

econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcep...

@opmc1.bsky.social @gillwyness.bsky.social Rich Murphy

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 1h

This week’s movers and shakers include an Olympic wrestler, a Lego collector and a former tree-logger

schoolsweek.co.uk

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Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 4h

When I’m speaking to heads pretty much all they want is some sense of how the grading distribution is going to fall, and what will/won’t be accepted as evidence. The feeling of ‘done with’ tends to come down to Inspector temperament, which always varies.

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Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 4h

Without knowing what grade they got it’s hard to tell if they just liked their inspector more.

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Tom Richmond @tom-richmond.com · 1d

"each student with special needs, autism or any behavioural disorders will count as two students in the classroom. The aim is to allow them to receive more personalised attention and to reduce the workload on teachers"

Mainstream SEN provision, Spanish style.

www.surinenglish.com/spain/spain-...

Spain plans to reduce class sizes in primary and secondary schools: these are the new ratios of teachers to pupils | Sur in English

Youngsters with disabilities or autism will count as two and classrooms in schools with more disadvantaged students will receive additional support

www.surinenglish.com

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Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, they already want their kids to do degree apprenticeships - because it’s a free degree. The middle classes have already cottoned on to this which is why DAs are hard to get and, I suspect, if you looked closely, aren’t going to the most deprived kids.

Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 1d

That’s because he’s saying parents are coming without more specific concerns - which is something I’ve heard from a range of people. The concern mainly is: “they’re trying but are behind others”.

Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 1d

I find the kindle app on phone *much* better.

Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 2d

To me the piece was trying to show that sometimes underachievement *is* conflated with SEND in an unhelpful way. In my view, it can be quite a complex thing to pull apart - both from an evidence base and emotionally (for all parties).

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Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 3d

This is why I won’t update my car. I hate all the screens.

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Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 3d

Basically, is it better for kids to vaguely know a lot or strongly know a little? It’s an interesting question!

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Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 3d

… So, with maths particularly, if there was a way to pick the most important bits, and just do those, a student may get a 4/5 whereas when doing more they get a 3 because no time to consolidate. So a half at 5 may be more valuable than full at 3.

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Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 3d

Not really. Via TT we find science and history do, at GCSE, quite strongly. The other subjects are more bothered by what’s included. But that’s also a broad curriculum conversation not one about grade 1-3. On that point teachers often say if they could go slower, grades would get higher…

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Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 3d

Also: are you allowed to just set any object on fire in the street?!? I

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Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 3d

So they wanted to stop the idea of modules being used to game but instead to keep a route with less content but more depth, which makes sense to me.

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Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 3d

The plan was very much *not* modular. They wanted to avoid that. What they wanted was less content in more time, but still with assessment at the end.

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Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 3d

Can you explain this a bit more:
“Not safe or fair to expect CYP to conform to neurotypical norms”

Are you saying there should be no norms? And if not, what norms should there be?

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 3d

A National Education Union stunt where primary school pupils handed out leaflets at the Labour Party conference drew criticism last week – but what does the law say?

Schools Week investigates…

Kids’ school dinner protest leaves a bad taste

NEU stunt involving primary pupils handing out leaflets on free school meals draws criticism

schoolsweek.co.uk

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Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 3d

Originally a main purpose of new GCSEs and the shift to 1-9 was that there would be half GCSE available, so you could do half content, nail it, get a high grade in that and then do other half at ks5. It later seemed to slip everyone’s mind.

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 3d

New post.
Has additional become the point?
bennewmark.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/h...

Screenshot of text from the linked essay.

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 3d

New post.
Has additional become the point?
bennewmark.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/h...

Has additional become the point?

Saying the SEND system is in crisis is no great reveal; it is proving ruinously expensive while failing to deliver either improved experiences or outcomes. One consequence of its long-term failure …

bennewmark.wordpress.com

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Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 3d

I got married at a Greenday themed wedding in Vegas and came down the aisle to Minority 😆

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Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 3d

Warning was 25 years old this month! At the time I found it a bit disappointing, but it’s now one of my favourites.

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Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 3d

I often sit in policy conversations where people say “as a society we don’t value (x group)” but really it’s usually that labour markets don’t value x group. Grasping *that* nettle, however, seems beyond possibility in our current formulation of society.

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