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Making a mockery of marking: The new GCSE English Language mocks

Dec 05, 2016 | Category: assessment

The following is a guest post from the mastermind of Comparative Judgement, Dr Chris Wheadon.The marking of English Language is likely to be extremely challenging this year. English Language has long...

#marking #Chris Wheadon #comparative judgement

Proof of progress Part 3

Jul 06, 2016 | Category: assessment

Who's better at judging? PhDs or teachers?In Part 1 of this series I described how Comparative Judgement works and the process of designing an assessment to test Year 5 students' writing ability. Then...

#marking #comparative judgement

A marked decline? The EEF's review of the evidence on written marking

May 18, 2016 | Category: assessment

Question: How important is it for teachers to provide written feedback on students' work?Answer: No one knows. This is essentially the substance of the Education Endowment Foundation's long-awaited re...

#marking #EEF

Workload Challenge: Marking

Mar 26, 2016 | Category: assessment

The three areas identified by teachers' responses to the Workload Challenge as particularly burdensome were marking, planning and data and a separate report has been prepared on each.On of the problem...

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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

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

Back to School Part 5: Marking

Aug 24, 2014 | Category: assessment

This series of #backtoschool blogs summarises much of my thinking as it’s developed over the past few years and is aimed at new or recently qualified teachers. Each area has been distilled to 5 ‘top t...

#marking #back to school #Dunning-Kruger

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...

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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