This practical guide shows how assessment can encourage learning rather than stifle children with excessive testing. The contents cover feedback, questioning, students owning the learning, and much more.
Putting Assessment for Learning into Practice is about the purpose of teaching and assessment as a means to ensuring deep, maximised, engaged and challenging learning. The simple message is good teaching can overcome bad testing and central to assessment for learning is empoweri…
Presenting original quantitative and qualitative data from a large-scale empirical research project conducted in British secondary schools, 'Reassessing 'Ability' Grouping' analyses the impact of attainment grouping on pupil outcomes, teacher effectiveness and social equality.
This title takes a 'big picture' approach to improving teaching in the adult and further education sector in parallel with offering detailed advice on how best to improve the quality of students' learning and thinking.
"The book discusses many areas of topical importance including teaching methods; motivating learners and matching work to children; how best to structure children's learning; classroom control and organisation; teaching literacy; teaching children with special educational needs …