A Fine Balance – Weighing the Costs of Assessment

Most of us recognise the need to make effective use of assessment when students return in September, whether in establishing starting points, promoting learning through retrieval or in identifying potential gaps. What’s not so clear is how we should assess and – mindful of the need to focus on integrating students after so long away

Principles of Great Assessment #3: Reliability

This is the third and final of my three part series on the principles of great assessment. In the first post I focused on the principles of assessment design, and in the second on principles relating to issues of fairness and equality. This final post attempts to get to grips with principles relating to issues

Principles of Great Assessment #1 Assessment Design

This is the first in a short series of posts on our school’s emerging principles of assessment, which are split into three categories – principles of assessment design; principles of ethics and fairness; and principles for improving reliability and validity. My hope in sharing these principles of assessment is to help other develop greater assessment

ResearchED Brighton: inside out not bottom up

I have been to several ResearchEd events, but I have to say that I thought yesterday’s conference in Brighton was the best one, at least in terms of the amount and quality of ideas I took away with me. The high standard of the speakers certainly helped, as did the deliberate decision to make the