Category: assessment
Moderation – how it works
Over the next couple of weeks, I will be looking at moderation and its implications for teachers...
Read MoreIs formative assessment fatally flawed? Confusing learning & performance
Do we undermine formative assessment by confusing learning and performance? Student performance during a lesson is “a highly imperfect index of long-term learning” (Soderstrom and Bjork, 2015), but...
Read MoreTeaching and assessment for top-end success in new GCSEs
I’ve been looking at the specimen papers for GCSEs in English, Maths and Science to get a feel for the expectations at the top-end. Although, in theory, schools should have been engaging with these materials for a while, with...
Read MoreSome clarity on KS2 Writing moderation … but not a lot
Not for the first time, the Department has decided to issue some clarification about the writing assessment framework at Key Stage 2 (and its moderation!). For some inexplicable reason, rather than sharing this clarity in...
Read MoreWhy formative assessment matters: the power of prior knowledge
“The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.” (Ausubel, 1968 in Wiliam, 2016)...
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