Richard Selfridge

Helping schools develop their use of student data. Education Data Consultant at @insightHQ. My Little Guide for Teachers to Using Student Data is out now.

[Ofsted @Ofstednews]

📊 New analysis: the ‘achievement’ grade, attainment data and schools in challenging circumstances

We’ve shared some early insights from the 921 school report cards published since November.

Read the full report 👉 https://t.co/l2PJnVIruU

[Yorkshire Steve @Yorkshire_Steve]

It's been a while since I a have shared an update of my analysis for achievement grades of @oftsednews secondary school inspection reports.

Partly because I have been bust with work but mostly because the patterns are not changing.

[Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers]

We'd love to see you at the Databusting Surrey event we are hosting!
It's at the perfect time as we all start to think about the next academic year. @InsightHQ @Databusting @jpembroke
#primaryteaching

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

There is little to no correlation between how highly students rate their instructor and how well they have learned the subject. Evaluations are influenced by factors unrelated to teaching quality, including instructor gender and course difficulty.

Faculty who teach demanding courses may receive lower ratings, not because they teach poorly, but because students conflate challenge with poor instruction. Instructors who inflate grades and reduce rigor tend to be rewarded with higher scores. https://t.co/YAQLQm2UVg

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

By sheer coincidence, it was my turn to do Thought For The Day at TTA this morning, so I chose to talk about the horrific attack in Golders Green yesterday, and what it means to be a Jew in 2026 Britain.

Please give it a few minutes of your time if you can.

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

The responses to this are why I will never leave this website

[Dylan Wiliam @dylanwiliam]

@Jordan_C_Adams Just wrong. Working out who the more effective teachers are is not just hard. It is in principle impossible, since every teacher builds on the foundations laid by her predecessors.

[Yorkshire Steve @Yorkshire_Steve]

Morning @Rory_Gribbell,

You are understandably (and rightly) keen that people don't jump to too firm conclusions about how the new toolkits are working from a small sample of reports.

[Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers]

Following on from Anna's great✍️ post on Wednesday, and as an EYFS SLE, check out this writing from the other end of our school 😍. We have had strong fidelity to @RuthMiskinEdu Read, Write, Inc model for about 10 years now.
You can read about our approach to teaching and learning from Pre-School to Year 2 here 👇
https://t.co/aQMbW8kRgs
We follow a hybrid of direct instruction and continuous provision and, we hope you agree, those foundational skills are really coming along!
Happy Easter everyone,🐥
Cass
@Emma_Turner75 @MaryMyatt @RuthMiskinEdu @WAGOLLTeaching @TeacherPaul1978 @JoPetersEYFS @MrsDexterEYFS

[Nidhi Sachdeva, PhD @nsachdeva2019]

Spread the word among educators in Alberta. ResearchEd is coming to Alberta with amazing speakers.

@rastokke @natwexler @researchEDCan @researchED_US

[Richard Selfridge @Databusting]

As ‘Low Expectations’ are in the air again, here’s a polemic I wrote about origins of ‘the soft bigotry of low expectations’ soundbite a decade ago.

Whilst some things have changed, I’d still argue that ‘low expectations’ is unhelpful sleight of hand…

https://t.co/tyWQjmXdBC

[Richard Selfridge @Databusting]

@adamboxer1 @RPUffendell @Rory_Gribbell Ta.

[Richard Selfridge @Databusting]

@adamboxer1 @RPUffendell @Rory_Gribbell Would you say that every child can get a 9?

[Richard Selfridge @Databusting]

@adamboxer1 @RPUffendell @Rory_Gribbell Thanks 🙏

[Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers]

Happy #bookmarkMonday 🥳.
A no-brainer for this week is @adamboxer1's short blog 👇
An easy, great read about the sunk-cost fallacy that we all have to lean into sometimes, no matter how good a school leader we think we might be.
In education there are fads, old ideas gift-wrapped as new ones and just the wrong choices. Know the best bets and implement them until you're blue in the face! #we❤️EEF
Thanks, Adam

[Yorkshire Steve @Yorkshire_Steve]

So, we've plenty of data in for secondary reports. I have been tweeting away my observations and comparing the awarded achievement grades against a model I wrote using publicly available data and the final version of the toolkits.

[Nidhi Sachdeva, PhD @nsachdeva2019]

We are here in Sweden representing Canada. #rEDScan

[Richard Selfridge @Databusting]

Final count down to #rEDScan tomorrow
#researchED
Livestreams, session details and more available here:
https://t.co/Pf63hDKg57

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

ALSO on the other side of the world tomorrow, #rEDScan is happening. ALSO sold out, with around 500 attendees, also the biggest ever researchED in Sweden. Thanks to the patience and wisdom of the brilliant @EvaHartell @researchED1