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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

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

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...

#marking #Chris Wheadon #comparative judgement

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

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...

#marking #comparative judgement

Triple impact feedback on the EEF marking review

May 24, 2016 | Category: Featured

1.The EEF publish a review of the evidence of marking. 2. I give them some feedback. 3. The EEF respond to my criticisms. 4. Well... we could go on for ever. Feel familiar?James Richardson and Robbie...

#marking #Education Endowment Foundation

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

Workload Challenge: Marking

Mar 26, 2016 | Category: assessment

The three areas identified by teachers' responses to the Workload Challenge as particularly burdensome were marking, planning and data and a separate report has been prepared on each.On of the problem...

#marking #Workload Challenge

The role of teachers is not to make managers' lives easier

Feb 29, 2016 | Category: behaviour

"To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them." Benjamin Disraeli Questions about the purpose of education divide and bedevil: there's no real agreement...

#marking #planning #data #workload