Assessment in Education

Thanks to Kenneth's post ' Learning Styles Serendipity' for directing me towards this excellent critical review Learning style...

The study of the literature, in the previous posts, provided an insight into some of the negative aspects of assessment in education with su...

We all have different methods of assimilating information which have been defined by various theorists over the years to develop a better un...

It is not just the teacher who is the sole contributor to evaluating a child’s piece of work but the child and peer’s views are also of grea...

The learning and teaching aspect of assessment falls under the umbrella of AiFL as a sub-category Assessment AS Learning: learning how to le...

Black & Wiliam (1998) advocated that formative assessment was the answer to these problems. Their research proved that formative assess...

The turning point in assessment in education was through Black & Wiliam’s (1998) report Inside The Black Box which highlighted many of t...

ACE (A Curriculum For Excellence) and AiFL (Assessment is For Learning) are a few of the buzz words that have permeated teaching environme...

AiFL is the buzz word in staff rooms and meetings where different methods of formative assessment are being implemented for the benfit of ch...

Today's lesson was taught to you with only the teacher talking. How easy was it to follow the instructions? Did you need to ask for help...

Today's lesson was taught to you with the teacher talking and notes on the board. How easy was it to follow the instructions? Did you ne...

Today's lesson was taught to you using only notes and no teacher talking. How easy was it to follow the instructions? Did you need to as...

Today's lesson was taught to you using notes, teacher explaining and the whiteboard for demonstrations - the all singing and dancing way...

Today's lesson was taught to you with the teacher talking and notes on the board. How easy was it to follow the instructions? Did you ne...

Today's lesson was taught to you with only the teacher talking. How easy was it to follow the instructions? Did you need to ask for help...