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Union leaders ‘disappointed and concerned’ that problems are emerging with the primary assessments again this year

Documents also show SQA was warned ‘a return to the 2019 course requirements should not be done quickly’ because younger students had suffered ‘greater learning loss’

As England moves up to fourth in Pirls for primary reading, Tim Oates explains why the outcome is proof that education policies can have a real impact if implemented correctly

Teachers’ concerns are ‘deeply worrying’ after last year’s Sats marking failures, says union

This week pupils took a reading test that led to school leaders calling for testing reform – but what was the problem with the paper? ÌÇÐÄVlog investigates the numbers behind the words

This week’s education news round-up includes reports of pupils crying over the difficulty of this week’s Sats reading paper, Ofqual guidance on mock GCSE exams and an investigation into the drop in the number of teachers over 50

Leader of the Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association will say in an address tomorrow that he fears proposed changes to assessment will ‘only add to teacher workload’

Even school staff were left ‘struggling to understand the questions’ in yesterday’s key stage 2 Sats reading paper, warns the NAHT

When chemistry teacher Duncan Short took up the drums last year, he gained a deeper understanding of what his students face when they go through assessment

The extent to which Covid learning loss is still affecting primary pupils in maths has been revealed by new research, which suggests that schools will be focused on education recovery in the subject for years to come

Only one in seven teachers thinks the return to pre-pandemic course assessments in Scotland is a positive move at Higher level, Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association research suggests

As new research reveals that attending a ‘high-achieving’ school is a risk factor for mental health problems, psychologist Tara Porter considers what this means for how teachers work with their top attainers