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I would like to share with you the original inspiration for our current programme of peer-written formative feedback. Back in the Autumn Term, I ran a small-scale competition to test the concept. To my surprise, all the winners came from The Appleton School in Benfleet. Perhaps it was due to the
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With Easter almost upon us, now is a good time to make sure that your students are correctly set up for revision. Here is what to do. 1. Go to your Student Set List 2. For each student set you want revision for, select “Topics for revision” from the Actions dropdown. If it’s not visible, check…
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What’s the difference? Fewer links. There was a lot of redundancy, which created clutter and could trigger spam filters. Quiz percentages now show in the email. This was much-requested. Now shows your teacher rank.
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Assessing Computer Science is a very different challenge from assessing ICT, so a different approach is needed. With ICT, there is standard content that we can expect all students to have covered. Computer Science is far more varied. For example, we can expect every student to have studied at least one programming language – but…
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I am sure you have already noticed the “write a feedback statement” pages that we salt through quizzes now. We ask students to write feedback statements and then vote for the best ones. Until now, you have only been able to see the few statements that I have published here in the blog. Now, you…
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