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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

Squaring the circle: can learning be easy and hard?

May 11, 2014 | Category: learning

Regular readers will know I've been ploughing a furrow on this question for quite a while now. Last June I synthesised my thinking in this post: Deliberately difficult – why it’s better to make learni...

#Dylan Wiliam #Daniel Willingham #Robert Bjork #Kris Boulton #Robert Coe #Annie Murphy Paul #Daniel Kahneman

Getting feedback right Part 3: How can we increase pupils' effort?

Mar 19, 2014 | Category: assessment

I started to explore how we might make feedback more meaningful a few weeks back but then got sidetracked. If you haven't already looked at them, it might be worth spending a few moments on Part 1 (wh...

#Carol Dweck #Dylan Wiliam #Effort #feedback

Everything we've been told about teaching is wrong, and what to do about it!

Mar 09, 2014 | Category: myths

It was great to be back at the IOE for Pedagoo London 2014, and many thanks must go to @hgaldinoshea & @kevbartle for organising such a wonderful (and free!) event. As ever there's never enough time t...

#Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #Robert Bjork #David Mcraney #Christopher Chabris #Daniel Simons #Katherine Schultz #PedagooLondon14

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

Getting feedback right Part 1 - Why do we give it?

Mar 04, 2014 | Category: assessment

It's become a truism that feedback is the most important activity that teachers engage in. Feedback, we are repeatedly told, is tremendously powerful and therefore teachers must do more of it. Certain...

#Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #feedback

An inconvenient truth? The surplus model of school improvement

Feb 23, 2014 | Category: leadership

Schools often seem to be run on a 'deficit model': "this attributes scepticism or hostility to a lack of understanding, resulting from a lack of information. It is associated with a division between '...

#Dylan Wiliam #school improvement #John Tomsett #Tom Sherrington #Liam Collins #accountability #Chris Moyse

Practical differentiation: high expectations and the art of making mistakes

Feb 01, 2014 | Category: Featured

Differentiation? I hate the word as I hate Hell, all ludicrous bureaucracy, and thee!Er... Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet Differentiation is one of the darkest arts in teaching. The generally accepted...

#Ofsted #Dylan Wiliam #differentiation #marking #Tom Sherrington #success criteria

Old Hat(tie)? Some things you ought to know about effect sizes

Jan 24, 2014 | Category: myths

Ever since Hattie published Visible Learning back in 2009 the Effect Size has been king. For those of you who don't know, an effect size is a mechanism for comparing the relative merits of different i...

#Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #effect sizes #Ollie Orange

Force fed feedback: is less more?

Jan 26, 2014 | Category: Featured

It is commonly and widely accepted that feedback is the best, brightest and shiniest thing we can be doing as teachers, and the more of it the better. Ever since Prof Hattie published Visible Learning...

#Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #feedback #Robert Bjork #Andy Day