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Rethinking assessment Part 2: the Einstellung effect

Nov 15, 2015 | Category: assessment
As I set out here, Dr Chris Wheadon has come up with a beautifully simple solution to assessing students' essays which requires no rubrics, very little marking time and produces extremely reliable res...
#Daisy Christodoulou #Chris Wheadon #Einstellung effect

Is it possible to get assessment right?

May 23, 2015 | Category: assessment
No.After my last blog on how to get assessment wrong, various readers got in touch to say, OK smart arse, what should we do?Well, I'm afraid the bad news is that we'll never get assessment right. Or a...
#Joe Kirby #Daisy Christodoulou #Amanda Spielman #The Mastery Pathway

Testing & assessment - have we been doing the right things for the wrong reasons?

Jun 16, 2013 | Category: assessment
A curious peculiarity of our memory is that things are impressed better by active than by passive repetition. I mean that in learning (by heart, for example), when we almost know the piece, it pays be...
#AfL #Robert Bjork #Daisy Christodoulou #retrieval #testing

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