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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...

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Go Compare!

Sep 09, 2016 | Category: assessment

Another one from Teach Secondary, this one from their assessment special. This time it's an over view of Comparative Judgement.Human beings are exceptionally poor at judging the quality of a thing on...

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10 Misconceptions about Comparative Judgement

Jul 07, 2016 | Category: assessment

I've been writing enthusiastically about Comparative Judgement to assess children's performance for some months now. Some people though are understandably suspicious of the idea. That's pretty normal....

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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...

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Proof of progress Part 2

Mar 11, 2016 | Category: assessment

Back in January I described the comparative judgement trial that we were undertaking at Swindon Academy in collaboration with Chris Wheadon and his shiny, new Proof of Progress system.Today, Chris met...

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Proof of progress - Part 1

Jan 30, 2016 | Category: assessment

Measuring progress is a big deal. I've written before about the many and various ways we get assessment wrong but, increasingly, I'm becoming convinced there are some ways we might get it right. As re...

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Rubrics warp teaching and assessment

Dec 11, 2015 | Category: writing

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.Machiavelli In a recent blog post, children's author, Michael Rosen has suggested how teachers should t...

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