Primary to Secondary: Overcoming the Muddle in the Middle

Ruth Sutton’s work in assessment within education has taken her from the UK to many parts of the world.  This book – her fifth in a series designed to link research to improvements in learning and teaching within schools – draws on published research, the author’s own experience and the voices of teachers and pupils.  It draws implications from these voices, and identifies essential bridges we need to build to overcome the ‘muddle in the middle’, including issues around bureaucracy, the social/personal, curriculum content, pedagogy and the managing of learning.

Below are reviews of this book by practitioners written in 2009.