It is decades since Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam opened up the ‘Black Box’ to reveal the crucial importance of assessment as learning, but it would appear the messages from …
‘The Confident Teacher’ Endorsements
If the clue in the blog title wasn’t clear enough, I have been spending large chunks of my school holidays and significant corners of very late evenings writing my book, …
Learning (and Assessment) First
(Illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt) We so often get assessment wrong in schools. Under perennial accountability pressures, assessment often loses it chief purpose: aiding learning. Today, in Sheffield, hundreds of teachers are …