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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...

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...

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...