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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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