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Does the new inspection framework trade off reliability against validity?

Jan 15, 2020 | Category: leadership
Yesterday I saw a thread on Twitter from headteacher Stuart Lock on the pros and cons of the new inspection framework:https://twitter.com/StuartLock/status/1216475275514523648?s=20In it he discusses t...

When assessment fails

Jul 12, 2016 | Category: assessment
I wrote yesterday about the distinctions between assessment and feedback. This sparked some interesting comment which I want to explore here. I posted a diagram which Nick Rose and I designed for our...

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...

20 psychological principles for teachers #19 Measurement

Jun 30, 2015 | Category: assessment
This is #19 in my series on the Top 20 Principles From Psychology for Teaching and Learning and the second of three posts examining how to assess students’ progress: "Students’ skills, knowledge, and...