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Formative assessment
Use the resources below to develop formative assessment strategies that get the most from marking and feedback, stretch your more able learners and improve teaching overall.
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Marking can be the bane of a teacher’s life. Reverse the slide and keep your workload under control with five strategies to cut your marking time in half
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Josephine Smith explores approaches to formative assessment designed to save time, provide useful feedback and promote knowledge retrieval
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Are you teaching on the edge? Torsten Payne provides strategies and examples for effective (and time-saving) feedback
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Providing meaningful feedback when pupils are engaged in remote learning requires careful thinking. Claire Gadsby provides ideas and examples for maximising time and effort
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Download and adapt our primary homework model policy for use in your school
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Tom Fay explains how a simplified marking strategy has enabled teachers to focus on feedback that makes a difference
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What types of feedback can maximise learning and get the best out of pupils? Tom Fay explains how to boost the effectiveness of this much misused teaching strategy
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Assistant head Kristen Weiss explains how action research facilitated changes in marking and feedback practice, resulting in reduced workload for teachers at Blean Primary School
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A cognitive psychologist explains why testing can help learning, and how teachers can use retrieval practice to boost their pupils' knowledge retention
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Using a dot to indicate 'check this' is small but powerful way to encourage self-reflection and reduce teacher workload. Find out how it works in practice