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Becky Allen @profbeckyallen.bsky.social · 3d

New blog post from me: The Promises and Pitfalls of Personalisation.
In this post, I review how Learn Your Way with Google has introduced personalised examples into textbook content.
profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/the-promis...

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Becky Allen @profbeckyallen.bsky.social · 3d

New blog post from me: The Promises and Pitfalls of Personalisation.
In this post, I review how Learn Your Way with Google has introduced personalised examples into textbook content.
profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/the-promis...

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 15d

Typically excellent.

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Becky Allen @profbeckyallen.bsky.social · 12d

You are committing exactly the same aggregation fallacy that I talk about in the blog post. Your chart shows a relationship between averages!

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Becky Allen @profbeckyallen.bsky.social · 15d

New on 100% Assessment Substack: Target Grades - Useful or Unhelpful? 100assessment.substack.com/p/target-gra... @head-teach.bsky.social

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Becky Allen @profbeckyallen.bsky.social · 24d

I'm also moving my personal blog onto Substack so do subscribe if you would like to. profbeckyallen.substack.com

Becky’s Substack | Becky Allen | Substack

My personal Substack. Click to read Becky’s Substack, by Becky Allen, a Substack publication. Launched 4 minutes ago.

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Becky Allen @profbeckyallen.bsky.social · 24d

At lightening speed (for me), I've written up my talk from ResearchED this month. Can AI help with formative assessment? profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/can-ai-hel...

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · Sep 3

New from me.
The Dangers of Diagnosis.
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The dangers of diagnosis

Two years ago, at a conference I described the process my wife and I went through to get our daughter her EHCP. I used a phrase familiar to those of us with children who find life harder and need m…

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Thorsten Möhlmann @thorstn.bsky.social · Sep 1

I know it’s just abridged and has to sound and it is swifty differentiated explained in the text. Alas: As long as we explain «AI» w/ human analogies of understanding, addressing or supporting, we keep ourselves from thinking it different.

Worth reading the more complex text, #BlueLz. #lernenmitki

Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · Sep 1

*NEW*
1️⃣ Curriculum: Does the AI understand your subject the way your best teachers do?
2️⃣ Instruction: Is “adaptivity” just pacing tweaks, or does it genuinely address misconceptions?
3️⃣ Assessment: Does AI support teacher judgment, not replace it? carlhendrick.substack.com/p/ai-in-scho...

AI in Schools: Three Things to Get Right

Making AI Work for Learning, Not Just for Efficiency

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Becky Allen @profbeckyallen.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ha! I’m wildly more optimistic than you about whether AI can re-construct school-level curricula, when asked. It may reflect our subject differences - “English” is very poorly specified. I’m talking about it at researchED- see you there!

Becky Allen @profbeckyallen.bsky.social · Aug 16

New on 100% Assessment: The Trouble with Progress Reports... The case for and against telling parents whether students are making progress.
100assessment.substack.com/p/the-troubl...
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Becky Allen @profbeckyallen.bsky.social · Jul 20

We’re going to write a post very soon on confidence interval reporting pros and cons. I like that framing - most framing of CIs is unintelligible to parents.

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Becky Allen @profbeckyallen.bsky.social · Jul 19

New on 100% Assessment Substack: Should Subjects Be Required to Report Attainment on a Common Scale?https://100assessment.substack.com/p/should-subjects-be-required-to-report @head-teach.bsky.social

Should Subjects Be Required to Report Attainment on a Common Scale?

Why there is no perfect way to report attainment to students and parents

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Bernard Andrews @bernardandrews.bsky.social · Jul 16

I’m really looking forward to my ResearchEd National talk this year:

'Of Gods and ideas: how intelligence became artificial’.

I’m going to chart how our conceptions of learning have evolved (or degraded) over three millennia — from communing with gods to acquiring and organising data.

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Ben White @benwhitewaldenkent.bsky.social · Jul 16

Enjoyed interviewing @profbeckyallen.bsky.social for @ttradioofficial.bsky.social on AI and Schooling last month. The discussion threw up lots to think about (1/8)

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Becky Allen @profbeckyallen.bsky.social · Jul 8

Today @teachertapp.bsky.social and School Dash publish an update to their teacher labour market report, showing showing job adverts down 27% on 18/19 and -36% on last year.

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Becky Allen @profbeckyallen.bsky.social · Jul 8

Thanks to @gatsbyed.bsky.social for funding this update. Full report here - teachertapp.com/uk/publicati.... School Dash blog here - www.schooldash.com/blog-2507.ht...

Teacher Recruitment and Retention - July 2025 - Teacher Tapp

The Teacher Tapp and SchoolDash annual report on teacher recruitment and retention, funded by Gatsby Foundation, provides insights into the current state of the teaching profession in England. By moni...

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Becky Allen @profbeckyallen.bsky.social · Jul 8

For heads and students, this is good news as it becomes easier for leaders to fill posts with suitably qualified teachers.

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Becky Allen @profbeckyallen.bsky.social · Jul 8

Tight budgets and demographic collapse mean the number of teachers in the profession is likely to start falling from here. Lower churn makes it harder to find good career progression opportunities.

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Becky Allen @profbeckyallen.bsky.social · Jul 8

Today @teachertapp.bsky.social and School Dash publish an update to their teacher labour market report, showing showing job adverts down 27% on 18/19 and -36% on last year.

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Becky Allen @profbeckyallen.bsky.social · Jul 5

New on 100% Assessment with @head-teach.bsky.social:
The Discrimination Dilemma - Deciding when 69% really means better than 65%.

As always, subscribe for weekly updates.

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The Discrimination Dilemma

Deciding when 69% really means better than 65%

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Becky Allen @profbeckyallen.bsky.social · Jul 7

I’d like to try this.

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Becky Allen @profbeckyallen.bsky.social · Jun 21

New on Substack: How reliable does an assessment need to be? @head-teach.bsky.social 100assessment.substack.com/p/how-reliab...

How Reliable Does an Assessment Need to Be?

Making Sense of Noise, Judgement, and Purpose in Assessment

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Becky Allen @profbeckyallen.bsky.social · Jul 5

New on 100% Assessment with @head-teach.bsky.social:
The Discrimination Dilemma - Deciding when 69% really means better than 65%.

As always, subscribe for weekly updates.

100assessment.substack.com/p/the-discri...

The Discrimination Dilemma

Deciding when 69% really means better than 65%

100assessment.substack.com

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Becky Allen @profbeckyallen.bsky.social · Jun 21

Yeah we probably will do something like that. If we can turn it into a coherent narrative!!!

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