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The joy of marking

Oct 27, 2011 | Category: assessment

I'm a big fan of marking students' work. I love it so much I let a big pile of it build up to do over the holidays. As an English teacher I'm faced with a lot of marking and most of it needs to be rea...

#Ofsted #AfL #Ian Gilbert #literacy #marking #Triple impact marking

If you grade it, it's not formative assessment

Sep 02, 2011 | Category: assessment

Having a bit of a crisis of confidence. Canadian teacher and education reformer, Joe Bower tweeted the title of the post this morning. That's not right I thought, I can provide formative feedback on a...

#formative assessment #comments #grades #Joe Bower #Ruth Butler #Stephen Gorard

Is there a case for summative assessment?

Sep 19, 2011 | Category: assessment

I've written a lot on the importance of formative assessment recently and feel pretty clear in my own mind of its efficacy. In contrast I see summative assessment as existing only as an external measu...

#summative assessment #Cristina Milos #Jennifer Borgioli

What can engineers teach us about assessment?

Sep 14, 2011 | Category: assessment

If, like me, you thought the answer to the above question was almost certainly nothing, take a look at this:[caption id="attachment_367" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Slide from Dylan Wiliam'...

#AfL #formative assessment #Dylan Wiliam #engineering

Differentiation: to do or not to do?

Sep 07, 2011 | Category: assessment

Of all the impossible tasks expected of poor, over-worked teachers, differentiation is the most troublesome. Why? Because on the one hand, if you did it properly every lesson you'd be reduced to a dri...

#Phil Beadle #differentiation #Dweck #Francis Gilbert

What's the point of assessment?

Aug 22, 2011 | Category: assessment

Came across an interesting challenge by @purposeducation - #500words campaign, This week the topic is #purposedassess, so here goes... Everyone knows that there's two different types of assessment, ri...

#learning #AfL #formative assessment #Dylan Wiliam #Sir Ken Robinson #summative assessment

Exam analysis

Aug 28, 2011 | Category: assessment

September looms and I've already been given an appointment for my Progress Meeting to discuss last year's results and strategies for this year's.On the one hand, I could be forgiven for feeling quite...

#Chris Weadon #failure #GCSEs #Ian Gilbert #results #Woody Allen

Formative assessment and the mark scheme

Jul 23, 2011 | Category: assessment

I’ve been consciously and actively using exam board mark schemes as an essential component of formative assessment with my classes for some time now and thought it was time to share what I was up to m...

#learning #English #AfL #formative assessment #mark schemes