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Read rest of post: TIMSS and the progress challenge
Date posted: 29 September 2016
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Read rest of post: The knotty issue of assigning curriculum levels to assessment results
Date posted: 21 September 2016
By Rose Hipkins
Read rest of post: Making progress in evidence-based reasoning: what part do contexts play?
Date posted: 16 September 2016
By Rachel Bolstad
Not all Games for learning teachers started out as gamers. Today we're going to look at another trajectory followed by some of the game-using teachers in our study: The play-based learning advocates.
Read rest of post: What motivates game-using teachers? Episode 3
Date posted: 15 September 2016
By Rachel Bolstad
Read rest of post: What motivates game-using teachers? Episode 2
Date posted: 12 September 2016
When I reflect on educational aims at the school level, I think of the key competencies in the curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007).
Read rest of post: Argumentation: another candidate for measuring progress?
Date posted: 8 September 2016
By Rachel Bolstad
Read rest of post: What motivates game-using teachers? Episode 1
Date posted: 2 September 2016
By Elliot Lawes
Meet Bob. Bob is a floating eyeball with a hard luck story he's dying to tell you. Are you willing to listen?
Read rest of post: Meet Bob
Date posted: 29 August 2016
Thank you for coming back to our science blog. You get a tag-team handover this week - I am Rose Hipkins and I’m picking up from my colleague Ally Bull. My plan is to build on her thoughts and questions while turning the focus to an issue that I know is worrying a lot of teachers right now.
Read rest of post: What do we mean when we ask if students are "making progress" in science?
Date posted: 24 August 2016