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The problem with marking and how to solve it

Jan 31, 2022 | Category: workload

Every teacher - particularly English teachers - has huge existential guilt about marking. When I worked full time as a teacher marking was the first thing to go when the stress inevitably piled up. An...

#marking #feedback #proofreading #whole class feedback #teacher presence

Why interview feedback is a waste of time

Feb 27, 2020 | Category: leadership

A few years ago I wrote a series of posts on the subject of improving the interview process in schools: Part 1: A brief review of the evidence Part 2: Intuition vs. statistical prediction (in whi...

#feedback #Interviews

What do students think about marking?

Mar 03, 2019 | Category: Featured

Over the past year or so, I've been doing some very informal research into students' attitudes and opinions with some of the schools I work with on an ongoing basis.Two years ago I wrote 2 posts summa...

#marking #feedback

Why feedback fails

Jan 10, 2017 | Category: assessment

Feedback is one of the few things in education that pretty much every agrees is important and worthwhile. The need for feedback is obvious: if you were expected to learn how to reverse park a car whil...

#feedback #PISA #Kluger & DeNisi

Less marking, more feedback: A challenge and a proposal

Dec 01, 2016 | Category: leadership

I've been arguing for some time that if teachers spent less time marking (by which I mean writing comments on students' work) then they might have a lot more time for giving meaningful feedback which...

#marking #feedback #intelligent accountability

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

The feedback continuum: why reducing feedback helps students learn

Oct 15, 2016 | Category: learning

The effects of feedback are more complex than we often realise. While expertise and mastery is unlikely to develop without feedback it's certainly not true to say that giving feedback results in exper...

#John Hattie #feedback #Robert Bjork

Feedback and assessment are not the same

Jul 11, 2016 | Category: assessment

You don't figure out how fat a pig is by feeding it. Greg Ashman At the sharp end of education, assessment and feedback are often, unhelpfully, conflated. This has been compounded by the language we u...

#feedback #reliability #validity

Should students respond to feedback?

Nov 30, 2015 | Category: assessment

The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.Fran Lebowitz One of the criticisms of my post about book monitoring is that I have omitted checks to see whether students...

#Dylan Wiliam #marking #feedback #book monitoring #student response

Could less marking mean more feedback?

Sep 27, 2015 | Category: Featured

Opportunity makes a thief. - Francis Bacon I wrote recently about the differences between marking and feedback. In brief, and contrary to popular wisdom, they are not the same thing; feedback is uni...

#marking #feedback #Chris Wheadon #No More Marking