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Is it possible to get assessment right?
May 23, 2015 |
Category: assessment
No.After my last blog on how to get assessment wrong, various readers got in touch to say, OK smart arse, what should we do?Well, I'm afraid the bad news is that we'll never get assessment right. Or a...
Landmark: a million thank yous
Feb 26, 2015 |
Category: blogging
I began blogging in July 2011. In January 2012 I signed up with Google Analytics and have clocked up over 2 million pageviews since.[caption id="attachment_6937" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The s...
The glamour of grammar: in context or not?
Feb 13, 2014 |
Category: English
It's something of an understatement to say that glamour and grammar are not usually closely associated in many people's minds. One of the 100 words David Crystal uses to tell The Story of English is ‘...
Principled curriculum design: the English curriculum
Dec 16, 2013 |
Category: English
The tragedy of life is that one can only understand life backwards, but one must live it forwards
Søren Kierkegaard
Back in March 2013, I wrote about the principles underlying my redesign of a Keys St...
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...
Independence vs independent learning
Jun 20, 2013 |
Category: literacy
Last weekend #SLTchat was on fostering students' independence. As you'd expect, there were lots of great suggestions shared, as well as some not so great ideas. One comment I tweeted in response to th...
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