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When assessment fails

Jul 12, 2016 | Category: assessment

I wrote yesterday about the distinctions between assessment and feedback. This sparked some interesting comment which I want to explore here. I posted a diagram which Nick Rose and I designed for our...

#Dylan Wiliam #reliability #Daniel Koretz #validiity

Testing, testing... why one test can't do everything

May 17, 2016 | Category: assessment

The thing which most seems to rile people about testing is the fact that it puts children under stress. A certain amount of stress is probably a good thing - there's nothing as motivating as a looming...

#Dylan Wiliam #testing #Martin Robinson #Tim Oates

Should students respond to feedback?

Nov 30, 2015 | Category: assessment

The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.Fran Lebowitz One of the criticisms of my post about book monitoring is that I have omitted checks to see whether students...

#Dylan Wiliam #marking #feedback #book monitoring #student response

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

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

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

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

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