Ideas about learning, ICT and pedagogy

Assessment for Learning made engaging and purposeful

Visual Assessment
Using Active Learning techniques benefit students greatly as discussed in the introduction to this chapter, and creating opportunities for using this method with assessment really does produce excellent results. Students who work with assessments on this level eventually gain a concrete understanding about:
•    the various components of an answer;
•    how to build an ideal [...]

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Great educational websites to use with your exam classes

Fantastic websites to use with students from starters to main activities, check it out:
KartOO I really like this site as it give students a visual of how search term link together and which sites link to a particular word or phrase. Here’s an example.
Visuwords: This website allows you to look up words to find their [...]

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The end of Test-ocracy

Not quite.
The debate over the value of measuring and testing intelligence has been fiercely debated in the press particularly around the time of GCSE and A-Level results, over the past few years. Arguments vary from suggesting that exams are becoming easier to they no longer serve any purpose.
The number of exams is not as important as [...]

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