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Is it what you do or the way that you do it?

Jan 23, 2016 | Category: research

Alex Quigley has just responded to my post Two Stars and a Bloody Wish! with the revelation that it works for him and others: Using a ‘Two Stars and a Wish’ model ironically meant that many teachers w...

#marking #Alex Quigley #EEF #two stars and a wish #bloodletting

Why I like 'tick n flick'

Dec 16, 2015 | Category: Featured

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less. William of Ockham Tick n flick - the practice of flicking through students' exercise books and ticking to indicate that they have been read (o...

#John Hattie #marking #workload #Greg Ashman

Marking: What (some) Ofsted Inspectors (still) want

Dec 03, 2015 | Category: workload

It is up to schools themselves to determine their practices and for leadership teams to justify these on their own merits rather than by reference to the inspection handbook. UPDATE: There is a happy(...

#Ofsted #marking #workload

Opportunity knocks: the hidden cost of bad ideas

Nov 30, 2015 | Category: leadership

Remember that Time is Money. He that can earn Ten Shillings a Day by his Labour, and goes abroad, or sits idle one half of that Day, tho’ he spends but Sixpence during his Diversion or Idleness, ought...

#marking #opportunity cost

Should students respond to feedback?

Nov 30, 2015 | Category: assessment

The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.Fran Lebowitz One of the criticisms of my post about book monitoring is that I have omitted checks to see whether students...

#Dylan Wiliam #marking #feedback #book monitoring #student response

Could less marking mean more feedback?

Sep 27, 2015 | Category: Featured

Opportunity makes a thief. - Francis Bacon I wrote recently about the differences between marking and feedback. In brief, and contrary to popular wisdom, they are not the same thing; feedback is uni...

#marking #feedback #Chris Wheadon #No More Marking

Marking and feedback are not the same

Sep 19, 2015 | Category: workload

Feedback is, we're told, the most powerfully important invention in which a teacher can engage, but marking students' books can be mind-numbingly tedious drudgery. Because of this tension, many school...

#marking #feedback #EEF

What should written feedback look like?

May 04, 2015 | Category: Featured

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.Arthur Schopenhauer In response to my last post, Cristina Milos pointed out that I use the term 'feedback' without providing any further...

#marking #Joe Kirby #proofreading #RAG123 #written feedback

Two stars and a bloody wish!

May 03, 2015 | Category: leadership

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.Jean de La Bruyère We are held hostage by our superstitious belief in the mystical power of marking to...

#marking #two stars and a wish #www ebi

The fetish of marking

Apr 30, 2015 | Category: assessment

Even the most valuable fetishes will turn into dusts and ashes! Mehmet Murat Ildan Fetishism hasn't always been about rubber and high heels. The word originates from the Portuguese feitico, meaning an...

#Dylan Wiliam #marking #Dr Becky Allen #Leeds Beckett University #Wakefield Regional Teaching School Alliance