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What makes a good formative assessment?
Posted on February 4, 2017
This is part 5 of a series of blogs on my new book, Making Good Progress?: The future of Assessment for Learning. Click here to read the introduction to the series. In the last two blog posts – here a…
How can we close the knowing-doing gap?
Posted on January 28, 2017
This is part 4 of a series of blogs on my new book, Making Good Progress?: The future of Assessment for Learning. Click here to read the introduction to the series. One frequent criticism of memorisat…
Is all practice good?
Posted on January 22, 2017
This is part 3 of a series of blogs on my new book, Making Good Progress?: The future of Assessment for Learning. Click here to read the introduction to the series. I can remember having a conversatio…
Teaching knowledge or teaching to the test?
Posted on January 15, 2017
This is part 2 of a series of blogs on my new book, Making Good Progress?: The future of Assessment for Learning. Click here to read the introduction to the series. For many people, teaching knowledge…
Why didn’t Assessment for Learning transform our schools?
Posted on January 8, 2017
This is part 1 of a series of blogs on my new book, Making Good Progress?: The future of Assessment for Learning. Click here to read the introduction to the series. Giving feedback works. There is an…
Making Good Progress?: The future of Assessment for Learning
Posted on January 3, 2017
In February, my second book is going to be published by Oxford University Press. It’s called Making Good Progress?: The future of Assessment for Learning. It is the assessment follow-up to my first b…
Herbert Simon and evidence-based education
Posted on December 18, 2016
Who is Herbert Simon? Herbert Simon was one of the great scholars of the twentieth century, whose discoveries and inventions ranged from political science (where he began his career) to economics (in…
Research Ed 2016: evidence-fuelled optimism
Posted on September 11, 2016
One of the great things about the Research Ed conferences is that whilst their aim is to promote a sceptical, dispassionate and evidence-based approach to education, at the end of them I always end up…
Comparative judgment: practical tips for in-school use
Posted on July 16, 2016
I have blogged a bit before about comparative judgment and how it could help make marking more efficient and more reliable, and help to free the teaching of writing from tick box approaches. I…