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Dylan Wiliam's defence of formative assessment

Apr 25, 2014 | Category: assessment

Back in March I wrote a post called Why AfL might be wrong, and what to do about it based, largely, on Dylan Wiliam's book Embedded Formative Assessment (If you haven't already read it, I encourage yo...

#AfL #formative assessment #Dylan Wiliam

Does it do what it's supposed to? Assessing the assessment

Apr 06, 2014 | Category: assessment

In response to a request for constructive criticism of the English assessment model I helped design, Michael Tidd got in touch to query whether it met his 7 questions you should ask about any new ‘pos...

#Robert Coe #APP #Michael Tidd #National Curriculum

One step beyond - assessing what we value

Apr 05, 2014 | Category: assessment

Hey you, don't teach that. Teach this! Do we always teach what we value? it seems to me that when push comes to shove, we end up teaching what is assessed. The urgency of accountability results, inexo...

#Alex Quigley #Belmont Community School #curriculum #Daisy Chistodoulou #Phil Bagstock

Getting feedback right Part 4: How can we increase pupils’ aspiration?

Apr 02, 2014 | Category: assessment

You may remember that over the past few weeks I've been trying to refine my thinking about how we can improve the way we give feedback. If you haven't already read the previous instalments, you might...

#John Hattie #feedback #Education Endowment Foundation #aspirations

Getting feedback right Part 3: How can we increase pupils' effort?

Mar 19, 2014 | Category: assessment

I started to explore how we might make feedback more meaningful a few weeks back but then got sidetracked. If you haven't already looked at them, it might be worth spending a few moments on Part 1 (wh...

#Carol Dweck #Dylan Wiliam #Effort #feedback

Getting feedback right Part 2: How do we provide clarity?

Mar 05, 2014 | Category: assessment

As discussed in yesterday's post, I am currently working on the assumption that there are only 3 meaningful purposes of feedback: To provide clarity To increase pupils' effort To increase pupil...

#feedback #clarification

Getting feedback right Part 1 - Why do we give it?

Mar 04, 2014 | Category: assessment

It's become a truism that feedback is the most important activity that teachers engage in. Feedback, we are repeatedly told, is tremendously powerful and therefore teachers must do more of it. Certain...

#Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #feedback

Chasing our tails - is AfL all it's cracked up to be?

Aug 29, 2013 | Category: assessment

Is it blasphemous to doubt the efficacy of AfL? While purists might argue that it's 'just good teaching', we teach in a world where formative assessment has become dogma and where feedback is king. (D...

#learning #AfL #assessment #Input/output myth #performance #remembering #understanding

AfL: cargo cult teaching?

Aug 31, 2013 | Category: assessment

OK, so here's a quick summary of the story so far: A few days ago I suggested in a blog post that maybe AfL 'wasn't all that'. Lots of lovely people kindly got in touch to point out that I clearly had...

#AfL #Dylan Wiliam #feedback #Gordon Baillie

Testing & assessment - have we been doing the right things for the wrong reasons?

Jun 16, 2013 | Category: assessment

A curious peculiarity of our memory is that things are impressed better by active than by passive repetition. I mean that in learning (by heart, for example), when we almost know the piece, it pays be...

#AfL #Robert Bjork #Daisy Christodoulou #retrieval #testing