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Jan 10, 2019 · ‘Owning your own learning’ is at the heart of strong self-regulation and metacognition: setting learning goals, planning, monitoring and evaluating success in tasks links to those goals; forming effective schemata that take account of big-picture questions and themes that inform subsequent conscious rehearsal and elaboration.
Dylan Wiliam outlines five key strategies in formative assessment that advance learning effectively. These strategies encourage clear communication of objectives, foster engaging classroom discussions, and utilize learners as resources for understanding and improvement.
- “A bad curriculum well taught is invariably a better experience for students than a good curriculum badly taught: pedagogy trumps curriculum. Or more precisely, pedagogy is curriculum, because what matters is how things are taught, rather than what is taught.”
- “The greatest impact on learning is the daily lived experiences of students in classrooms, and that is determined much more by how teachers teach than by what they teach.”
- “feedback should cause thinking. It should be focused; it should relate to the learning goals that have been shared with the students; and it should be more work for the recipient than the donor.
- “The teacher’s job is not to transmit knowledge, nor to facilitate learning. It is to engineer effective learning environments for the students. The key features of effective learning environments are that they create student engagement and allow teachers, learners, and their peers to ensure that the learning is proceeding in the intended direction.
Mar 28, 2021 · (Wiliam 2017 p.50) There is no shortcut. Wiliam’s firm belief is that formative assessment improves performance. (Wiliam 2017 p.11) His view - ‘the use of assessment for summative purposes - grading, sorting, and ranking students - gets in the way’ of learning.
Dylan Wiliam describes assessment as the bridge between teaching and learning. The concept of “ formative assessment” emerged with recognition of the importance of feedback and application of navigational metaphors about staying on course through corrective steering.
Revisiting Dylan Wiliam’s Five Brilliant Formative Assessment Strategies. "Wiliam's five strategies should be part of the core curriculum for teacher development". In this article the author aims to: Re-introduce Wiliam's five assessment strategies; Explore the effective use of each strategy;
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This video is for practitioners who want explore and understand educational thinking on using formative assessment to support the best learning and teaching. Dylan Wiliam is Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment at University College London.
