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Comparison is easy

Nov 19, 2015 | Category: assessment

The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.Jacob Bronowski Judging the quality of a thing in isolation is hard. Is t...

#comparison #Donald Laming

Rethinking assessment Part 2: the Einstellung effect

Nov 15, 2015 | Category: assessment

As I set out here, Dr Chris Wheadon has come up with a beautifully simple solution to assessing students' essays which requires no rubrics, very little marking time and produces extremely reliable res...

#Daisy Christodoulou #Chris Wheadon #Einstellung effect

Rethinking assessment Part 1: How can we tell if students are making progress?

Nov 15, 2015 | Category: assessment

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?Stanislaw J. Lec For some time now I've been of the opinion that the way we normally think of progress is based on a myth. Part of the problem is that becaus...

#Dylan Wiliam #Chris Wheadon

20 psychological principles for teachers #20 Interpretation

Jul 05, 2015 | Category: assessment

This is the 20th and final post in my series on the Top 20 Principles From Psychology for Teaching and Learning and the third of three posts examining how to assess students’ progress: "Making...

#Dylan Wiliam #Samuel Messick

20 psychological principles for teachers #19 Measurement

Jun 30, 2015 | Category: assessment

This is #19 in my series on the Top 20 Principles From Psychology for Teaching and Learning and the second of three posts examining how to assess students’ progress: "Students’ skills, knowledge, and...

#Dylan Wiliam #fairness #reliability #validity

Is it possible to get assessment right?

May 23, 2015 | Category: assessment

No.After my last blog on how to get assessment wrong, various readers got in touch to say, OK smart arse, what should we do?Well, I'm afraid the bad news is that we'll never get assessment right. Or a...

#Joe Kirby #Daisy Christodoulou #Amanda Spielman #The Mastery Pathway

How to get assessment wrong

May 20, 2015 | Category: assessment

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are.Søren Kierkegaard With the freedom to replace National Curriculum...

#Michael Tidd #Robert Siegler

The fetish of marking

Apr 30, 2015 | Category: assessment

Even the most valuable fetishes will turn into dusts and ashes! Mehmet Murat Ildan Fetishism hasn't always been about rubber and high heels. The word originates from the Portuguese feitico, meaning an...

#Dylan Wiliam #marking #Dr Becky Allen #Leeds Beckett University #Wakefield Regional Teaching School Alliance

Back to School Part 5: Marking

Aug 24, 2014 | Category: assessment

This series of #backtoschool blogs summarises much of my thinking as it’s developed over the past few years and is aimed at new or recently qualified teachers. Each area has been distilled to 5 ‘top t...

#marking #back to school #Dunning-Kruger

The AfL debate: does it matter who's right?

Apr 28, 2014 | Category: assessment

If you're not already aware of my critique and Dylan Wiliam's defence of formative assessment I do recommending getting up to speed before reading this post. Dylan's defence rests on the idea that alt...

#Dylan Wiliam #Robert Bjork