Critical Thinking - its role, value and impact upon driving attainment
Seminar highlighting how an explicit focus on Critical Thinking can enhance the attainment of pupils of all backgrounds and abilities, following recent research. Importantly, the research showed that ...
24 Feb 20101h 57min
Formative assessment: A critical review
Guest speaker Randy Bennet looks at six inter-related issues in formative assessment (aka, ‘Assessment for Learning’). The issues concern the definition of formative assessment, the claims commonly ma...
23 Feb 201057min
Standards at A-Level: Sources of Evidence
Concerns that ‘standards are falling’ continue to dominate public debate. What are the sources of data to which we should turn to illuminate issues of standards, and what degree of confidence should w...
8 Feb 20101h 37min
What can we learn from cross-national comparisons of education and training?
Guest speaker Professor David Raffe explains how caution and care is essential in order to draw robust conclusions from international comparisons about different national education systems. Hosted on ...
22 Okt 20091h 2min
Assessment Form and Function
It is often not recognised that the form of an assessment can have as much influence on outcomes as the construct being assessed. We often use traditional assessment techniques without recourse to the...
17 Sep 200941min
Where are we with National Testing
Despite successive failures in administration and accumulating evidence of extreme washback effects into the curriculum, national assessment and associated accountability measures remain a solid part ...
13 Jul 20091h 2min
Testing and Identity
For many years, assessment has shaped the way we learn and the way we teach. But, claims a top educational expert, the use of ‘labels’ in testing can make it a destructive process. Speaking at a recen...
18 Jun 20091h 9min
Formative Assessment Revisited
A recent seminar ‘Formative Assessment Revisited’ hosted by the Cambridge Assessment Network explored some of the reasons why people are becoming adherents to Assessment for Learning in the light of t...
19 Mai 20091h 9min
