‘Smart is not something you are, smart is something you get’ (Wiliam, 2013a).
What is formative assessment?
There is more than 40 years’ research evidence to ...
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) reported this year that 45 per cent of young teachers have concerns over their mental health and are considering leaving th...
'Imagine what a difference it would make if children knew what they were good at and what they had to do to improve.' With these stirring words, our trainer ext...
Feedback seems extremely powerful. It is 'among the most common features of successful teaching and learning' with an average effect size of 0.79, 'twice th...
The issue that teachers face
Questions are an integral part of classroom life and essential to every teacher’s pedagogical repertoire. They are also one of the...
Assessment for learning (AfL) strategies, closely associated with formative assessment, aim to enable students to independently assess their own learning, mov...