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What I got up to at the Wellington Festival of Education Part 1

Jun 22, 2014 | Category: learning

Sadly, I missed most of the Friday. I spent the morning speaking at a maths conference (I know, right?) on correcting the mistakes made in the name of ‘numeracy across the curriculum’. If you’re inter...

#AfL #formative assessment #Dylan Wiliam #Wellington College

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

Why AfL might be wrong, and what to do about it

Mar 12, 2014 | Category: myths

Some cows are so sacred that any criticism of them is fraught with the risk of bumping up against entrenched cognitive bias. We are fantastically bad at recognizing that our beliefs are often not base...

#AfL #Dylan Wiliam #Graham Nuthall #Robert Coe

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

SOLO taxonomy training

Jan 30, 2012 | Category: SOLO

UPDATE: I no longer think SOLO taxonomy is worth spending any time on. Here is why.A few weeks ago I rather rashly offered to present on SOLO taxonomy to the North Somerset Aspire network. As always w...

#AfL #SOLO taxonomy #hexagons

Some thoughts on Learning Styles

Dec 05, 2011 | Category: learning

The rusting can of worms that is Learning Styles has been prised open again and the wriggling mess is crawling all over the educational twittersphere. And on that note I will stop extending the metaph...

#AfL #Ian Gilbert #learning styles #Bill Boyd #Daniel Wilingham #Old Andrew #VAK