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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

Endorsements - what are they worth?

May 05, 2015 | Category: Featured

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise — although the philosophers generally call it “recognition”!William James You might not have noticed (I've been the...

#Dylan Wiliam #Daniel Wilingham #Robert Bjork #What If Everything You Knew About Teaching Was Wrong?

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

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...

#Dylan Wiliam #Robert Bjork #Daisy Christodoulou

The Unit of Education

Jan 08, 2015 | Category: Featured

If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.Lord Kelvin A lot of education research is an attempt to measure the effects of teaching (or teachers) on learning (or pupils.) But is this actually pos...

#Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #effect sizes #Robert Coe #research #Bloom

Forget about assessing learning after lessons

Sep 19, 2014 | Category: Featured

Today I not only have my first ever article published by the TES, it's made the front page!Those of you familiar with my output will recognise the arguments and be familiar with the thinking that's le...

#Dylan Wiliam #TES #Robert Bjork

Back to School Part 4: Planning

Aug 23, 2014 | Category: Featured

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...

#Dylan Wiliam #Daniel Willingham #John Tomsett #Lee Donaghy #planning #back to school

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

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