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Driven by data – Assessment
ASSESSMENTS – (Aligned, Interim, Reassess, Transparent) Standards (and objectives) are meaningless until you define how to assess them. Because of this, assessments are the starting point for...
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New and Improved GCSE grade system?
The Easter holidays? Holidays seems a little misleading, what with assessment announcements, policy documents and student revision sessions. What are we looking at? The current seven-point (A*-G)...
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Quick Key Geography
As we move to a Kay Stage 3 curriculum without levels, teachers across the land are devising learning “journeys” with appropriate assessment activities. Complete with… …lessons rich in assessment...
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Quick Key responses
Our Quick Key teachers team at The Wellington Academy is growing. We are now four, hoping to attract members from all nine curriculum areas. Our successes (insightful feedback for pupils, delivery...
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Quick Key – Assessment in September
With our Key Stage 3 Assessment Outcomes reverse engineered from Key Stage 4 Assess Outcomes we have gone onto designing our long-term plans or progression grids for “Assessment Without Levels.” A...
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Micro Quick Ticket
We are really moving with our Quick Key projects. 6 departments are now quizzing and scanning assessments. Two departments are racing ahead, Geography and MFL. Geography are preparing their first whole...
View ArticleQuestions or statements
You can be wrong answering a question. You can not be wrong answering a statement. As I was preparing my AOB at the SLT meeting I called up a sticky note. On one of the “used” notes was the above note....
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Whole class marking and feedback
What, drawn, and talk of workload? I hate the word, As I hate hell, all managers, and thee. Have at thee, coward! Teachers should not be goaded into unreasonable marking and feedback practice resulting...
View ArticleEn Vogue MCQs making a comeback
Back in 2014 I wrote a series of posts on multiple choice questions MCQs. What started as a line of enquiry on multiple-right-answer, MCQs, revealed a world of research, statistical analysis and TEFL....
View ArticleHugely disappointed
Teachers are not very good at writing effective and usable assessment questions. says @ProfCoe #rEdDurham Studies typically find that unstructured judgements of the expected proportion who will get a...
View ArticleKen Jones – News from nowhere
The #IOEDebates offers a rich vein of educational thinking. Panelists are dedicated experts within their education field. Hence the debates are often a level or two above a chance encounter,...
View ArticleWhat every teacher needs to know about assessment (Q1)
Introduced by Professor Stuart Kime (Director of Education at Evidence Based Education – EBE) “What every teacher needs to know about assessment,” brought together researchers and cross-phase leaders,...
View ArticleWhat every teacher needs to know about assessment (Q2)
The first post, covered the first half of “What every teacher needs to know about assessment.” Unsurprisingly, this post covers the second half. What practices schools should do ‘more‘ or ‘less’ of....
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