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Using hinge point questions in English
Nov 03, 2024 |
Category: assessment
This post is an extract from Bringing the English Curriculum to Life.
In order to teach responsively, teachers need to be able to quickly identify misconceptions and check students’ understanding.A h...
Assessing English at KS3
Mar 05, 2022 |
Category: assessment
Throughout my career, the de facto approach to assessing English at KS3 has been to use extended writing. After all, this is what students will be faced with in their GCSEs so it kinda made sense that...
The shape of assessment
Dec 31, 2021 |
Category: assessment
As we should all now be aware, there are no external audiences interested in schools' internal data. If we're going to go to the trouble of getting students to sit formal assessments on which we will...
Why using the curriculum as your progression model is incompatible with 'measuring progress'
Sep 11, 2021 |
Category: assessment
Our capacity to misunderstand complex ideas leads, inexorably, to the lethal mutation of those ides. In my last post I set out why the apparently simple and obvious notion of 'using the curriculum as...
Why 'using the curriculum as a progression model' is harder than you think
Sep 08, 2021 |
Category: assessment
Since first hearing the idea that the curriculum should be the model of progression on Michael Fordham's blog, I immediately and instinctively felt that this was right. Of course, I said to myself, we...
Specifying a concept-led KS3 English curriculum
Oct 23, 2021 |
Category: assessment
If we accept that we are using the curriculum as a progression model - if making progress means that children know more, remember more and can do more of the curriculum they've been taught - then that...
Curriculum related expectations: the specificity problem
Nov 21, 2020 |
Category: assessment
If we are going to use the curriculum as a progression model, it's useful to build in checkpoints to ensure students are meeting curriculum related expectations. So far I written about replacing age r...
High jump vs hurdles: Replacing grades with curriculum related expectations
Nov 18, 2020 |
Category: assessment
I've recently argued that one way to ensure schools are explicitly using the curriculum as a progression model is to assess children against curriculum related expectations. Briefly, this means that i...
Curriculum related expectations: using the curriculum as a progression model
Oct 27, 2020 |
Category: assessment
One of the barriers to using the curriculum as a progression model is that there is too little understanding of what this might mean. It sounds great but a bit mysterious. I've spoken to a number of p...
GCSE reform: a modest proposal
May 30, 2020 |
Category: assessment
The pandemic has cast many assumptions about how education could or should unfold into sharp relief. Like many others, I've been wondering about the positives we might find in our current situation an...
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