The Classroom Experiment

Formative assessment is widely misunderstoood despite it being a fundamental aspect of teaching and the learning.  Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam are important proponents of developing a better understanding of formative assessment; their articles and books are mandatory reading on most teaching courses.

•  Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment (Black and Wiliam, 1998)

I was please to come across these episodes of a recent BBC programme investigating education theory and practice in the high school classroom: