The attractive thing about badges is that a school can invent their own categories and achievement levels.
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Formative assessment vs Summative assessment
To some extent, the difference between formative assessment and summative assessment is a matter of context and objectives.
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But does she understand what she's doing? Photo by Gerd Altmann.
Collating resources for my Assessment in Computing course
I'll be running a course in Assessing Computing soon. What are the challenges in compiling a list of recommended resources for course particpants?
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Open badges in a nutshell. (c) @bryanMMathers. Used with permission through a CC-BY-ND licence.
Personalising Computing assessment with badges
The attractive thing about badges is that a school can invent their own categories and achievement levels.
Read More5 Assessment for Learning techniques for ICT or Computing
Here are 5 assessment for learning techniques you may wish to try out. They are generic, but I think they are especially useful in the context of Computing and ICT. As well as my own work and experience, I have drawn on
Dylan Wiliam’s book, Embedded Formative Assessment, Black and Wiliam’s Inside the Black Box.Who cares about WALT and WILF?
I have a confession to make. You see, it’s like this, officer. I can never remember what WALT and WILF stand for. I know they’re acronyms to do with assessment for learning, but I can never recall what the letters stand for.
But it’s worse than that, your honour. I don’t even care.
A is for … Assessing ICT
How would you rate the apple pie shown in the photo? Yes, I know the first thing that comes to mind is probably “Disgusting!”, because my food presentation skills are not what they ought to be. (Believe it or not, the apple pie depicted has not been eaten.) But how you assess my efforts must depend on what exactly you’re looking for. (I realise this is kind of obvious, but please bear with me.)
25 ways to make yourself unpopular: #20 Be persistent
One of the most irritating things about children – but also one of the most endearing – is their tendency to ask lots of follow-up questions. They are never fully satisfied with the answer to their original question: each answer leads to a further enquiry. I think that ICT leaders can learn much from children in this respect.
There are two areas in which this sort of dogged persistence can pay off.
5 Tips for recording pupils’ progress in ICT
As well as assessing students' understanding at any given time, you will also need to record their progress over time. Here are five suggested ways of doing this.
Read MoreAssessment and learning
I was very privileged to be able to chair, and listen to, an online talk by Ashley Allain today, and I’d like to pick out just a few of the many incisive points Ashley made.
Read MoreAssessment in a home school setting
Assessment is difficult. Whatever “solutions” you might come across, unless you can open up someone’s brain and work out what’s been going on, assessment will always be a “best estimate” situation.
And “21st century learning and teaching” has, arguably, made matters worse.
Rules of Engagement
Do we need gimmicks, new-fangled techniques to keep kids engaged in lessons?