Impact
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Posts tagged Impact
Beyond correlation: what our 2017 and 2018-19 impact studies show
Two Tassomai studies, from 2017 and 2018-19, go further than a simple usage correlation. What they measured, what they found and what it means for schools.
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Evaluating EdTech impact: how to choose software tools that save teacher time
Too much EdTech ends up as shelfware. A 5-point audit to help school leaders choose software that genuinely saves teacher time and shows evidence of impact.
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“Great bang for your buck” - A headteacher’s verdict on Tassomai and its impact
Dr Paul Bell tells us how Horsforth School has embraced Tassomai to improve student engagement, reduce teacher workload, and drive better results.
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Ofsted's Quality of Education Framework: How Edtech Can Support Schools
Mark Barton, Tassomai’s Customer Facing Team Lead writes about Ofsted's shift towards a more holistic approach to evaluating schools and how edtech can support teachers and SLT.
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The Tassomai impact on Humanities
Clare Quarton, Teaching Team Leader for Humanities at Treviglas Academy, Newquay tells us about the impact Tassomai has had and how they’ve made homework fun, engaging and a little bit competitive for students.
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Closing the Pupil Premium attainment gap: results of the Pupil Premium Boost trial
In 2023/24, 20 schools trialled Pupil Premium Boost. Pupil Premium students with it made about 45% more course progress per question than Pupil Premium students without it.
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Supporting independent study with Tassomai in a high pupil premium area
James Stradling from All Saints Church of England School in Weymouth writes about using Tassomai to re-engage pupils with home learning in the post-covid era in an area of high pupil premium and poor social mobility.
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Why I love Tassomai’s scientific approach to English teaching!
Chantelle Nichols, Teacher of English and KS5 Coordinator at The Sutton Academy in St. Helens, talks to Tassomai about how she uses Tassomai to identify gaps in her students’ knowledge and engage students who prefer maths and science in their English studies…
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How students' performance improved on Tassomai - 2022 update
We’ve looked into our data to see how much students improved on Tassomai throughout the 2021/22 academic year, and the results are impressive! This post explains in detail how we calculate the performance improvement metric.
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Using Tassomai to help close the attainment gap in my school
Faye Brodrick, Head of Science at Ysgol Maesydderwen Comprehensive School in Swansea tells us how she created a ‘secret Tassomai club’ with her lowest attaining students in order to narrow the gap between her school’s highest and lowest grades.
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Using Tassomai data to improve interventions (and save time on marking too)!
Nick Cleator, Head of Science at Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy in Cheshire tells us how Tassomai data has changed his department’s approach to homework and lesson planning.
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We need ‘track and trace’ for education!
An open letter from Tassomai’s founder to school leaders about the Government’s ‘catch-up’ tuition plan, and why direction and focus is essential for it to succeed.
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Independent learning with Tassomai
Head of Science, James Stradling writes about the challenges facing our coastline schools and using Tassomai as a tool to promote independent study.
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Show me the evidence!
Tassomai founder Murray Morrison on the formation of the EdTech Evidence Group (EEG) and why schools should be evaluating edtech providers based on evidence of impact.
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We're Bett Awards 2020 Finalists!
For the second year running, Tassomai is up for 3 awards at Bett, the annual celebration of technology in education!
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My approach to Tassomai… a student’s success story
A Tassomai student tells us how she used the program to help her go from 4s and 5s to 8s and 9s, discovering a newfound love for science along the way!
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Does Tassomai work and is it worth the money? An honest review for parents
An honest Tassomai review for parents: what it costs today, what has changed since 2019, where it falls short and what our subscribers told us.
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Improving outcomes
Ben Parnell, Regional Director for Greenshaw Learning Trust identified Tassomai as an intervention tool to improve science outcomes in two schools in the West Country, each with their own challenges.
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Rapid results in just a few months
Matthew Moss High School introduced Tassomai in the run up to Christmas and got their best ever GCSE science results within just 6 months - Claire Crichton-Allen tells us how they did it!
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Making the Grade with Tassomai
Carole Dean, Headteacher at The Stonehenge School on reducing the gender gap and her school’s spectacular GCSE science results.
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