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Why interview feedback is a waste of time

Feb 27, 2020 | Category: leadership
A few years ago I wrote a series of posts on the subject of improving the interview process in schools: Part 1: A brief review of the evidence Part 2: Intuition vs. statistical prediction (in whi...

Less marking, more feedback: A challenge and a proposal

Dec 01, 2016 | Category: leadership
I've been arguing for some time that if teachers spent less time marking (by which I mean writing comments on students' work) then they might have a lot more time for giving meaningful feedback which...

Marking is an act of folly

Nov 30, 2016 | Category: leadership
Contrary to popular belief, marking and feedback are not the same thing. Clearly they're connected - and, ideally most marking has the intention of giving feedback - but the process of marking or givi...