Secondary Warehouse
Q12 Formative and Summative Assessment
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| Professional Standards for Qualified Teacher Status - Help Guide Within this document you will find useful ideas to help you with the QTS standards. |  |
| Inside the Black Box Raising the standards of learning that are achieved through school education is an important national priority. In this paper, Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam focus on formative assessment, arguing that it is at the heart of effective teaching and that there is evidence that it can provide a direction for change which could improve standards of learning. | |
| Assessment for learning: putting it into practice General Teaching Council for England research summary - September 2004. Discusses a follow up study to 'Inside the Black Box'. The study reports on the experiences of a group of teachers who started from research findings to develop formative assessment in their classrooms, resulting in a positive change in their practice. | |
| Raising standards through classroom assessment General Teaching Council for England research summary - May 2001. Appraisal of 'Inside the Black Box,' a study that might be helpful to teachers wanting to find out more about using assessment 'formatively' - that is, as a teaching and learning tool in their classrooms. Also included is additional case study material to illustrate the main points made by the study. | |
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| Secondary Assessment: Formative Assessment Formative assessment is increasingly seen as underpinning effective teaching and learning. In this programme, Paul Black and Chris Harrison, authors of the influential pamphlet Working Inside the Black Box, outline what they see as the key features of formative assessment. They focus on effective questioning, peer and self-assessment, feedback and marking. |  |
| Secondary Assessment: Effective Questioning The second programme on formative assessment provides an opportunity to hear more from Paul Black and Chris Harrison, authors of the influential pamphlet Working Inside the Black Box. They see questioning as essential to good formative assessment. They identify effective questions and discussion as key to good teaching and learning. | |
| Online Resources & Support | ||
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| Does Assessment Hinder Learning? ETS Europe Breakfast Seminar: Professor Dylan Wiliam's Speech - 17/10/2006 |  | |
| Assessing Reading: From Theories to Classrooms This book explores the construct of reading in relation to its assessment. | | |