by admin | May 26, 2026 | Uncategorised
There’s considerable confusion around types of referencing… they’re very different and have very different implications for teaching and learning.Norm-referencing compares a student to other students. There are definitely times when this is useful, like if you...
by admin | May 26, 2026 | Uncategorised
There are two very different models of learning we can think of… when we teach we probably bounce between them…The standard model says: teach the content, then assess what stuck. The developmental model says: use assessment during the learning so you can...
by admin | May 26, 2026 | Uncategorised
One of the big strengths of the developmental model is that it makes assessment more useful. The amount of schools who are knee deep in data that they use up all their precious teacher time gathering to then do nothing with is kind of depressing.Patrick Griffin’s work...
by admin | May 26, 2026 | Uncategorised
Assessment has a strange habit of drifting away from teaching. The machinery hums along nicely. What often gets lost is the point: assessment is for teaching. Indeed, that is what he called his highly influential book. Not the department’s ‘for/as/of/near/underneath...
by admin | May 26, 2026 | Uncategorised
People talk about assessment like it’s mainly a fairness problem… it is all about what a student ‘deserves’. If we can just get the rubric tighter, moderate harder, align grades across classes, then we’ve “fixed” it. I keep seeing teams put enormous effort into...
