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What do we mean when we talk about assessment?

28 October, 2015

Over two years have passed since Levels were removed from the National Curriculum. The Commission on Assessment without Levels recently published their recommendations, and placed a great deal of emphasis on the importance of in-school formative and summative assessment. But what do we mean when we talk about assessment?

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Quiz updates have resumed!

20 August, 2015

We have updated the software our content writing team uses to publish quizzes. We suspended new releases of AR quizzes over the summer break while we transitioned to the new programme - but after a successful upgrade we have now resumed quiz releases!

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14 million quizzes, 3 million assessments, and counting!

16 July, 2015

As schools in England and Wales begin to join those in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland on their summer holidays, it's a good opportunity to look back on the past year at Renaissance Learning.

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Celebrating success with reading

16 July, 2015

As the end of the school year has approached, we have been hearing all about the events schools have put on to celebrate students' success. We've scoured our Twitter page to select some favourites!

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Quiz updates postponed for maintenance

1 July, 2015

The software our content writing team uses to publish quizzes is being replaced. Regrettably, this means that there will be a few weeks' delay before new quizzes are added to our hosted sites.

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Renaissance News - Summer 2015

29 June, 2015

Customers in England will be receiving the Summer 2015 edition of Renaissance News this week. Those in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland will have theirs in time for the start of the new school year.

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'Out of Norm' comic strip competition winner announced

26 June, 2015

Congratulations to Giselle Pinot at Bablake School, who has beaten off stiff competition to win the 'Out of Norm' comic strip challenge.

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