Making Good Progress?

Daisy Christodoulou is the Head of Assessment at Ark Schools. Previously, she was Research and Development Manager at Ark. She has been part of government commissions on the future of teacher training and assessment. Her book, Seven Myths about Education, was published in March 2014.

Christodoulou is one of the most remarkable writers in education the UK has seen in decades, because she takes a subject as potentially opaque and esoteric as assessment, and unpacks it in an intelligible, vital way that neither patronises the novice or offends the expert. Her first book, 'Seven Myths', is one of the few texts that every new teacher should read. Her second book is, rather amazingly, another. It should be read deeply, broadly, everywhere that children are taught and assessments are used.