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Work scrutiny - What's the point of marking books?

Jan 26, 2013 | Category: assessment

Opportunity makes a thief. – Francis Bacon I wrote recently about the differences between marking and feedback. In brief, and contrary to popular wisdom, they are not the same thing; feedback is uni...

#marking

Is teaching cheating?

Nov 26, 2012 | Category: assessment

[caption id="attachment_2179" align="alignnone" width="259"] The Teachmobile[/caption]Today I was sent this:[slideshare id=15358374&sc=no]It purports to be a briefing sheet used by an AQA advisor to j...

#English #AQA #GCSE fiasco

The need for 'Why To' guides

Jun 07, 2012 | Category: assessment

I'm not a fan of telling people how to do things. OK, that may not strictly speaking be true, but I do believe that just explaining how to solve a problem is unlikely to result in much learning. The b...

#AfL #Dylan Wiliam #SOLO taxonomy #Weight Watchers #Why

Feedback: it's better to receive than to give

Feb 20, 2012 | Category: assessment

As every teacher ought to already know, feedback and formative assessment are the most powerful, most effective things you can be doing. This means we need to be taking every opportunity to let our s...

#Hattie #praise #feedback

When independent learning meets high stakes success

Mar 10, 2012 | Category: assessment

I've been thinking: our Year 11 students have just had their results back for the January sitting of the English Language GCSE exam. Currently English is a modular course, and this accounts for 40% of...

#Gove #Seth Godin

Are teacher observations a waste of time?

Feb 24, 2012 | Category: assessment

"I never allow teachers or school leaders to visit classrooms to observe teachers; I allow them to observe only students".John Hattie (2012)I've been mulling this statement over for the past few weeks...

#lesson observations #Hattie

How effective learning hinges on good questioning

Feb 04, 2012 | Category: assessment

Hands up who likes asking questions?Questioning is an essential part of helping students to make progress but only if it causes thinking or elicits evidence that informs our teaching. And the thing wi...

#AfL #Dylan Wiliam #Darren Mead #questioning #hinge questions

How to subvert target grades

Jan 15, 2012 | Category: assessment

Target grades are good aren't they? They must be otherwise why would Ofsted be so damn keen on them. Consider this: how would Monsieur d'Ofsted respond when asking an unsuspecting student in your clas...

#Ofsted #formative assessment #Dylan Wiliam #grading

Teaching to the test

Dec 08, 2011 | Category: assessment

In the light of the Telegraph's revelations that, shock! horror!, examiners tell teachers how to prepare students for exams it seems an opportune moment to reflect on the past two days. The chest thum...

#SOLO taxonomy #Tait Coles #AQA #English Language GCSE #The Telegraph

Controlled assessment and why I hate it

Oct 28, 2011 | Category: assessment

Yesterday I took a break from ploughing through my Year 10 controlled assessments to exhort myself to "bloody well get on with it" and stop moaning about my work load. Marking is virtuous. You know it...

#GCSE #Gove #controlled assessment #English language #English literature #iGCSE