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The Global Education and Skills Forum 2017
Posted on March 25, 2017
Last week I spoke at the Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai. I took part in a debate on the following topic: This house believes 21st century learners need their heads filled with pure facts….
Shakespeare and creative education
Posted on March 11, 2017
This essay was first published in the Spring 2016 edition of Use of English. I can remember reading Othello for the first time when I was studying A-level, and feeling slightly disappointed and cheate…
How do bad ideas about assessment lead to workload problems?
Posted on February 18, 2017
This is part 7 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. Bad ideas can cause workload proble…
How can we measure progress in lessons?
Posted on February 11, 2017
This is part 6 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. With national curriculum levels, it…
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…