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.
Joined February 2014
- Tweets 18,046
- Following 1,626
- Followers 4,100
- Likes 7,120
717 Photos and videos
Richard Selfridge retweeted
Jun 8
NEW ISSUE: when retrieval practice stops working, why mixed feedback backfires, what the OECD found when students lost GPT-4 access, and the phonics message that still hasn't landed. The Learning Dispatch, June 2026 ⤵️
5
14
34
3,914
Richard Selfridge retweeted
Jun 7
.@olicav has been hacked. Do not open any links DM'd to you from him in the near future.
1
13
13
4,478
Richard Selfridge retweeted
It's really telling that, having inspected around 250 secondary schools, that @Ofstednews have yet to identify a single school with low or very low levels of prior attainment that have achievement that is worthy of others coming to see how they manage it.
8
34
102
40,769
Richard Selfridge retweeted
May 20
📊 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 👉 gov.uk/government/publicatio…
ALT Text reads: The ‘achievement’ grade, attainment data and schools in challenging circumstances: what data from school inspections since November 2025 is telling us
ALT Text reads: We’ve looked at data from the 921 school report cards published so far (4% of total). It’s not representative of all schools but we do have some early insights...
ALT Read the full report on gov.uk/ofsted
4
18
36
17,543
Richard Selfridge retweeted
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.
1
3
4
1,274
Richard Selfridge retweeted
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
We're really excited to announce that @InsightHQ @jpembroke @Databusting will be running their 'Databusting Surrey with the Educakers' event with us in June.
Have a look at the link below for more information.
We'd love to meet so many of you in person!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/databusti…
A practical one-day workshop for primary and MAT senior leaders on making assessment and data work in practice, without adding to workload.
With the introduction of the new Ofsted toolkit and a revised IDSR, schools and trusts are under increasing pressure to demonstrate how assessment and data support inclusion, particularly for disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND. This practical one-day workshop provides time and space to step back and consider how assessment and data can be managed effectively, without adding unnecessary workload.
Aimed at senior leaders, the day focuses on practical, realistic approaches to assessment and data that support teachers, strengthen provision and inform improvement.
2
5
385
Richard Selfridge retweeted
Apr 30
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. chronicle.com/article/teachi…
14
102
353
35,646
RT @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 a…
199
Richard Selfridge retweeted
Apr 30
The responses to this are why I will never leave this website
Apr 30
🚨 Michael Jackson will be Burnley’s interim manager until the end of the season, club statement confirms.
Follows Scott Parker leaving with immediate effect.
2
7
25
9,128
Richard Selfridge retweeted
Apr 13
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.
17
18
162
11,575
Richard Selfridge retweeted
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.
1
8
12
5,335
Richard Selfridge retweeted
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 👇
theeducakers.substack.com/p/…
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
3
8
377
Richard Selfridge retweeted
Spread the word among educators in Alberta. ResearchEd is coming to Alberta with amazing speakers.
@rastokke @natwexler @researchEDCan @researchED_US
11
21
1,888
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…
icingonthecakeblog.weebly.co…
2
2
596
Richard Selfridge retweeted
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
3
7
1,137
Richard Selfridge retweeted
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.
1
9
41
22,856
Final count down to #rEDScan tomorrow
#researchED
Livestreams, session details and more available here:
haninge.se/researched/
1
2
103
RT @tombennett71: ALSO on the other side of the world tomorrow, #rEDScan is happening. ALSO sold out, with around 500 attendees, also the b…
6
Looking forward to discussing England's Lessons in Student Data from the last decade at #rEDScan this Saturday! #Haninge
#researchED
1
1
100