Guidance to support teachers with assessment responsibilities to develop their roles.
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Assessment for Learning: A Guide to Good Practice for Teaching Assistants
A booklet to support teaching assistants in the development of assessment for learning practice.
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DYLAN WILIAM EVENTS Embedding Formative Assessment Workshops
By david on February 17, 2012
Professor Dylan Wiliam has been teaching and researching in education for over 30 years. Dylan is the co-author of Inside the Black Box and presented the BBC’s Classroom Experiment (September 2010). Dylan is well known for inspirational workshops that help schools improve Assessment for Learning (AfL) practice in classrooms – see Dylan’s website www.dylanwiliam.org Dylan is running two further full-day [...]
Category: Assessment for Learning, Assessment Matters
DfE – Standards and Testing Agency: external operational and senior moderators to review LAs’ KS2 writing teacher assessment moderation processes for 2011/2012
By david on February 17, 2012
We are recruiting a pool of external operational and senior moderators to review local authorities’ Key Stage 2 writing teacher assessment moderation processes for 2011/2012. The operational moderators will be expected to undertake four moderation visits after which they will write a report and letter which will go back to the local authority. The senior [...]
Category: Primary, Statutory Assessment
Is it time for league tables to focus on pupils at 18?
By david on February 17, 2012
TES article – Former DfE official questions GCSE performance measure. Why are the results of GCSEs taken by 16-year-olds used to judge secondary schools when the compulsory age of education and training is due to be raised to 18?
Category: Examinations and Qualifications, Performance Data, Secondary