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School assessments

Assessments of thinking skills may misrepresent poor, inner-city children in the US

12 Oct 2022

Some of the assessment tools that measure children’s thinking skills in the US may have provided inaccurate information about poor, urban students...

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Croquet Players by Winslow Homer, 1865

Playing croquet with the examiner: “he was much like other people”

26 Sep 2013

Exams are part of our personal stories. The history of exams too is surprisingly human. A seminar on 1 October is a chance for the public to dip into...

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