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Does England need a new Year 8 reading test?

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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 4d

The government are said to be planning a new Year 8 reading test.

Do we need it?

Some thoughts here.

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And if so, what can we learn from America?

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Tom K @gctom.bsky.social · 12d

I’m sitting at the US Festival of Education listening to a tech guy go on about the use of tech in ed and wish instead we would all just read this brilliant piece aloud.

Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 12d

Latest on our Substack - I attempt to prove mathematically that education can never be fun, with reference to The Flowerpot Men, Jock Stein & the Galapagos tortoise.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 12d

Beautifully brilliant!

Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 12d

Latest on our Substack - I attempt to prove mathematically that education can never be fun, with reference to The Flowerpot Men, Jock Stein & the Galapagos tortoise.

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Chris Connolly @edtechris.bsky.social · 12d

A sentence for the ages from @daisychristo.bsky.social

“If online content is so addictive that it can lead to adults having less sex, it’s probably fair to speculate that it will lead to kids studying less algebra.”

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Mark Goodrich @markgoodrich.bsky.social · 12d

Three genuine laugh out loud moments in this blog from @daisychristo.bsky.social! As usual from her, it's also very thought-provoking on the implications of modern technology for how we organise our schools.

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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you!

Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 12d

Latest on our Substack - I attempt to prove mathematically that education can never be fun, with reference to The Flowerpot Men, Jock Stein & the Galapagos tortoise.

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No More Marking Explainer

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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 16d

How long does it take to mark a set of essays with Comparative Judgement?

Human CJ halves the time compared with traditional marking.
AI CJ reduces it by a further 90%!

Watch our explainer video & read more on our website.

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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 17d

We have a new video on our website explaining exactly how our new AI plus Comparative Judgement assessments work.

It's very different from just asking an AI to grade a paper. It's much more reliable than that, and has simple built-in human oversight too.

Check it out!

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Mark Goodrich @markgoodrich.bsky.social · 28d

Interesting review of Nick Gibb’s book by @daisychristo.bsky.social. I also think her criticism of the phonics screening check threshold “pass” is bang on. It has never made any sense to me.

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Lessons from England's school reforms

Why the picky, picky detail matters

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Swift Press @swiftpress.bsky.social · 21d

Congratulations to @daisychristo.bsky.social 🎉 I Can't Stop Thinking About VAR is on the Longlist for the 2025 William Hill Sports Book of the Year @bookieprize.bsky.social

'The longlist demonstrates the power of sport to inspire, challenge and entertain'

Find out more: shorturl.at/0M7GE

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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 23d

Our primary writing assessments start next Monday! Sign up by the end of this week to take part.

Read more about how Comparative Judgement & AI works.
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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 25d

Latest on our Substack: why assessment is the price mechanism of education - and what policymakers outside of education can learn from this.

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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 26d

The reason why assessment matters is that it forces you to think about what the curriculum really means.

As Dylan Wiliam says, assessment operationalises curriculum.

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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 27d

Nick Gibb's new book tells the story of England's educational reforms.

I wrote the foreword, & focussed on the importance of content knowledge - not just for education, but for policy.

In this post, I focus on 2 reforms with wider lessons for policy.

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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · Sep 7

The latest post on our Substack gives you an overview of how human Comparative Judgement can be used to assess writing, and how you can now use AI to make it even faster & more reliable.

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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · Sep 16

Just a couple of weeks left to sign up for our primary writing assessments - and to try out our new AI judging and feedback features.

Read more about how Comparative Judgement & AI works.
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Jasmine Lane 🦡 @msjasminemn.bsky.social · Sep 14

I don't read many edu books these days, but this is fabulous. Required reading for anyone who wasn't around when the changes happened and maybe for those who were, but have forgotten the dark times.

Despite a rocket few years, I still feel so lucky to be a part of education here 🙏🏽

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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · Sep 14

Last call for this on Tuesday....

Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · Sep 3

Our next Intro to Comparative Judgement webinar is on Tues 16 September at 4pm.

You can take part in some live judging of student writing AND see if your judgements agree with the AI!

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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · Sep 10

We've just released a big update to our Comparative Judgement assessments.

You can now use our AI features for ANY assessment you want.

So if you want to get AI to help you judge history, geography, science - you can!

More here.

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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · Sep 10

We've just released a big update to our Comparative Judgement assessments.

You can now use our AI features for ANY assessment you want.

So if you want to get AI to help you judge history, geography, science - you can!

More here.

help.nomoremarking.com/en/article/a...

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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · Sep 8

Primary schools can trial our new AI-enhanced writing assessments for free.

Subscribe to Assessing Primary Writing by the end of Sept & take part in our Year 3 assessment. If you don't like it you can cancel your subscription for no cost.

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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · Sep 10

Great to hear! We have just written a CJ + AI overview on our Substack. Let me know if you have any other questions. substack.nomoremarking.com/p/what-is-co...

What is Comparative Judgement and why does it work?

Humans and AI prefer comparative judgements to absolute ones