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Feedback and assessment are not the same

Jul 11, 2016 | Category: assessment

You don't figure out how fat a pig is by feeding it. Greg Ashman At the sharp end of education, assessment and feedback are often, unhelpfully, conflated. This has been compounded by the language we u...

#feedback #reliability #validity

10 Misconceptions about Comparative Judgement

Jul 07, 2016 | Category: assessment

I've been writing enthusiastically about Comparative Judgement to assess children's performance for some months now. Some people though are understandably suspicious of the idea. That's pretty normal....

#comparative judgement

Proof of progress Part 3

Jul 06, 2016 | Category: assessment

Who's better at judging? PhDs or teachers?In Part 1 of this series I described how Comparative Judgement works and the process of designing an assessment to test Year 5 students' writing ability. Then...

#marking #comparative judgement

A marked decline? The EEF's review of the evidence on written marking

May 18, 2016 | Category: assessment

Question: How important is it for teachers to provide written feedback on students' work?Answer: No one knows. This is essentially the substance of the Education Endowment Foundation's long-awaited re...

#marking #EEF

Testing, testing... why one test can't do everything

May 17, 2016 | Category: assessment

The thing which most seems to rile people about testing is the fact that it puts children under stress. A certain amount of stress is probably a good thing - there's nothing as motivating as a looming...

#Dylan Wiliam #testing #Martin Robinson #Tim Oates

Workload Challenge: Marking

Mar 26, 2016 | Category: assessment

The three areas identified by teachers' responses to the Workload Challenge as particularly burdensome were marking, planning and data and a separate report has been prepared on each.On of the problem...

#marking #Workload Challenge

Proof of progress Part 2

Mar 11, 2016 | Category: assessment

Back in January I described the comparative judgement trial that we were undertaking at Swindon Academy in collaboration with Chris Wheadon and his shiny, new Proof of Progress system.Today, Chris met...

#Chris Wheadon #No More Marking #comparative judgement

Proof of progress - Part 1

Jan 30, 2016 | Category: assessment

Measuring progress is a big deal. I've written before about the many and various ways we get assessment wrong but, increasingly, I'm becoming convinced there are some ways we might get it right. As re...

#Chris Wheadon #comparative judgement

Should students respond to feedback?

Nov 30, 2015 | Category: assessment

The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.Fran Lebowitz One of the criticisms of my post about book monitoring is that I have omitted checks to see whether students...

#Dylan Wiliam #marking #feedback #book monitoring #student response

Why teacher assessment is less fair than standardised testing

Nov 04, 2015 | Category: assessment

Tests Guns don't kill people, rappers do Goldie Lookin Chain I spent the day yesterday at the Department for Education thinking about how best to cut down on the "unnecessary workload" associated with...

#Daisy Christodolou #Robert Coe #Daniel Kahneman #Michael Rosen