Assessment

Dylan Wiliam and Paul Black originally defined formative assessment as: “encompassing all those activities undertaken by teachers, and/or their students, which provide information to be used as [...]

Unfortunately, we’ll never have 100% perfect student behaviour 100% of the time in our schools and classrooms. Students must learn what we consider appropriate and inappropriate behaviour; just [...]

Giving young people a voice in teaching and learning through student surveys The Great Teaching Toolkit (GTT) is more than just online courses – the Toolkit also contains student surveys, which [...]

Improving our use of assessment often means deepening our understanding of the curriculum. If you teach, you assess; assessment is part of teaching. But what do you assess? And how? And when? The [...]

Effective assessment for formative purposes provides key information that teachers and learners need. Like so much of what we do as teachers, feedback does not exist in a vacuum. It interacts [...]