Formative assessment: the most cost-effective way to improve education – but how do we know?
Dylan Wiliam, emeritus professor of educational assessment at UCL, explains the evidence for the cost-effectiveness of formative assessment.
Tag Archives: EFA
SSAT Embedding Formative Assessment(EFA) is a two-year professional development pack for all schools and colleges that contains all the materials you need for launching and running 18 monthly teacher learning communities (TLCs).
Regular, informal assessment boosts students’ progress by two months
Friday 13 July 2018 – the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) release evaluation reports which show Embedding Formative Assessment (EFA) increases students’ progress by two additional months over a school year.
Our journey to embed formative assessment
Clare Taylor, EFA Lead, Helsby High School, describes key features, including staff enjoyment through teacher-centred development, and student involvement in success criteria.
Longer term view: Teacher learning communities and the impact of formative assessment
Helsby High School teachers and school leaders share their experience of embedding formative assessment through the two-year teacher learning communities (TLCs) programme, authored by Dylan Wiliam.
Formative assessment, changing the culture and increasing impact
SSAT School Improvement 2018 speakers from Uppingham Community College celebrated their best GCSE results following completion of the two-year Embedding Formative Assessment (EFA) project. This film shares how they successfully led the programme and its impact.
Dylan Wiliam talks… inclusive differentiation
Using the example of finding the area of a trapezium, Dylan Wiliam discusses probing and pushing by teachers to challenge students using questioning and formative assessment.
It’s all about the journey, not the destination
SSAT education lead Corinne Settle has confessions to make.
A formative journey: making students active in the learning process
Greg Gilbey, Director of Student Engagement, Lincoln Christ’s Hospital School shares their story as one of the 61 schools to have completed the EEF/SSAT project Embedding Formative Assessment this year.
Refocusing assessment, so it works for the students and the school
And not primarily for inspectors, politicians or bureaucrats.
EEF Embedding Formative Assessment project – Are we nearly there yet?
An update on the substantial progress made in the Education Endowment Foundation’s Embedding Formative Assessment project.