This week my favourite article was @Walkendent’s (Ben White’s) article on using comparative judgment as formative assessment. Comparative judgment is a marking process based upon judging pairs of student responses, and from that forming a ranking of all responses. It’s touted as being quicker and more reliable than traditional marking methods, so I’ve been interested in it from some time but haven’t managed to work out exactly how to use it in my context, or to use it as formative assessment. This excellent post by Ben outlines exactly how he’s used it with his psychology class to great effect.

If you’re interested in the research behind homework, Alex Quigley offers an excellent summary in his blog post on the matter.

Takeaways 4, 5, and 6 are all interesting little pieces that you might like to check out if you’ve got a second (pt 5) or 45 mins (pt 4) to explore.

And takeaways 7 and 8 should be very interesting to anyone teaching humanities and/or english language learners. The idea of the ‘academic word list’ I found fascinating. (all past TOTs here), 

Using comparative judgment as formative assessment, via @Waldenkent

What does research have to say about homework? via @HuntingEnglish

Evidence informed practice and teacher autonomy. Mutually exclusive? via @Waldenkent

Darwin. A youtube lecture on discoveries driven by curiosity

A cartoon box to help build a culture of error

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Girls start to associate intelligence with gender around age six

Quick activity to promote student perspective taking

The academic word list. A MUST consider resource for anyone working with English language learners

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