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Category: AfL
Assessment for learning ideas
If you need some inspiration to develop assessment for learning this blog is full of ideas to try:
Ideas on marking and feedback
This lady uses a lot of marking and feedback strategies. They are good though and some good ideas here:
http://mrshumanities.com/2015/06/27/marking-feedback-and-dirt/
Teachers and Twitter
If you have not harnessed the power of twitter than you should…
Showing progress in lessons
Here are ten ways to show progress in lessons from Gillian Galloway of Acklam Grange School.
http://www.pedagoo.org/ten-easy-ways-to-demonstrate-progress-in-a-lesson/
Interleaving
Interleaving is something many practitioners are looking to help students retain more knowledge to help them with the new GCSEs. Here is a blog looking at it.
Spacing, Interleaving, the Testing Effect and Distributed Practice (the Diet Coke version)
Direct instruction
Here is a blog about direct instruction. This is a technique favoured in some parts of the USA and Australia and sounds straight forward but is anything but as it needs very high levels of consistency. The use of non-examples here is intriguing though.
The difference between assessment and feedback
There is a clear difference and David Didau makes this point and it is worth remembering.
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