Teaching and Learning

Question 1

What are the key principles of ‘Inside the Black Box’?

1 learners should be actively involved in..?
2 feedback must be based on clear ..?
3 learners are willing and able to self assess and assess the efforts of..? (But only when..?)
4 assessment impacts m……… and c……… ?

Black / Wiliam ‘Inside the Black Box’

Answer 1

1 … in the learning process
2 … clear learning intentions
3 … of their peers (when shared criteria are explicit enough)
4 … impacts motivation and confidence

Black / Wiliam ‘Inside the Black Box’

Question 2

What is Valeria Shute’s analogy for effective assessment?

Answer 2

murder!
Motive
Opportunity
Means

… ‘marking is murder’.

BTW Shute argues that the purpose and timing of feedback should be different for high achieving learners than it is for low achieving learners

Question 3

What does Graham Nuttall say about observing teaching?

(‘The Hidden Lives of Learners’)

Answer 3

Graham Nuttall:
“Research shows that faith in being able to judge the quality of teaching by observing is largely misplaced … The same teachers working with different students may perform quite differently.”

(‘The Hidden Lives of Learners’)

Question 4

Children in the top quartile aged 7 know..?
And in the lowest?

Effect..?

There is a note for this.

Answer 4

7100 words (1000 words per year)

3000 words

The Rich Get (word) Richer The Poor Get (word) Poorer

Question 5

Wonderful quote on assessment from Royce Sadler

“The indispensable conditions for improvement are that the student comes to hold…

is able to m…… continuously the q…… of …. is being p…….

and has a repertoire of a………. str……. from which to draw at any given point.

In other words, students have to be able to r……. what they are doing, during the d….. of it. ”

Royce Sadler, ‘Formative Assessment and the Design of Instructional Systems’

Answer 5

‘The indispensable conditions for improvement are that the student comes to hold a concept of quality roughly similar to that held by the teacher, is able to monitor continuously the quality of what is being produced during the act of production itself, and has a repertoire of alternative moves or strategies from which to draw at any given point. In other words, students have to be able to regulate what they are doing during the doing of it.”

Royce Sadler, ‘Formative Assessment and the Design of Instructional Systems’

Question 6

Wonderful quote from Ron Berger in ‘An Ethic of Excellence’ on assessment?

Is this..?
Do I feel…?
Does it…?

Answer 6

“Most discussions of assessment start in the wrong place. The most important assessment that goes on in a school isn’t done to students but goes on inside students. Every student walks around with a picture of what is acceptable, what is good enough. Each time he works on something he looks at it and assesses it. Is this good enough? Do I feel comfortable handing this in? Does it meet my standards? Changing assessment at this level should be the most important assessment goal of every school. How do we get inside students’ heads and turn up the knob that regulates quality and effort.”

Ron Berger, ‘An Ethic of Excellence’