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Unprofessional misjudgement

Mar 01, 2017 | Category: research

No, I’m not using evidence, but I’m not using prejudice either. I am exercising my professional judgement.Sue CowleyIt doesn’t make a difference how beautiful your guess is. It doesn’t make a differen...

#Ben Goldacre #EEF #Ignaz Semmelweis #Sue Cowley

Marking is an act of folly

Nov 30, 2016 | Category: leadership

Contrary to popular belief, marking and feedback are not the same thing. Clearly they're connected - and, ideally most marking has the intention of giving feedback - but the process of marking or givi...

#marking #feedback #EEF

Bottom sets and the scourge of low-level disruption

Nov 14, 2016 | Category: behaviour

In many English schools, low-level disruption is the norm. Children talking when expected to be silent, fiddling with equipment and each other, calling out, and generally not being 'on task' are all r...

#Ofsted #EEF #halo effect #expectations #ability setting #low-level disruption

What are 'thinking skills' and can we teach them?

Nov 09, 2016 | Category: research

...from a purely theoretical standpoint alone, it hardly seems plausible that a strategy of inquiry that must necessarily be broad enough to be applicable to a wide range of disciplines and problems c...

#EEF #Adey & Shayer #Cognitive Acceleration #Thinking Skills

A marked decline? The EEF's review of the evidence on written marking

May 18, 2016 | Category: assessment

Question: How important is it for teachers to provide written feedback on students' work?Answer: No one knows. This is essentially the substance of the Education Endowment Foundation's long-awaited re...

#marking #EEF

Is it what you do or the way that you do it?

Jan 23, 2016 | Category: research

Alex Quigley has just responded to my post Two Stars and a Bloody Wish! with the revelation that it works for him and others: Using a ‘Two Stars and a Wish’ model ironically meant that many teachers w...

#marking #Alex Quigley #EEF #two stars and a wish #bloodletting

Marking and feedback are not the same

Sep 19, 2015 | Category: workload

Feedback is, we're told, the most powerfully important invention in which a teacher can engage, but marking students' books can be mind-numbingly tedious drudgery. Because of this tension, many school...

#marking #feedback #EEF

20 psychological principles for teachers #7 Self-regulation

May 31, 2015 | Category: psychology

In this, the seventh in a series of posts examining a report on the Top 20 Principles From Psychology for Teaching and Learning, I take a closer look at Principle 7: "Students’ self-regulation assists...

#EEF #non-cognitive skills #self-regulation

Are we fetishising marking?

Nov 14, 2014 | Category: learning

When you make something a fetish, ashes and dusts will laugh at you, because they know even the most valuable fetishes will turn into dusts and ashes!Mehmet Murat ildan Last night I innocently posted...

#John Hattie #homework #marking #Robert Bjork #EEF #Sunk Cost Fallacy