Peer Feedback Matters.
Over the last several years, I’ve done a ton of experimenting in my sixth grade classroom with peer feedback — structured opportunities for students to give and receive feedback from one another....
View ArticleSession Materials: Annual Conference on Assessment and Grading
Over the next two days, I’ll be working with a group of incredibly motivated teachers and school leaders at Solution Tree’s Annual Conference on Assessment and Grading in Phoenix, Arizona. Together,...
View ArticleFive Tips for Giving More Meaningful Feedback to Students.
A client that I am working with recently asked me an interesting question. She said, “Bill — I know that the most meaningful feedback in classrooms is feedback that students gather about their own...
View ArticleActivity – Evaluating the Feedback Teachers Give TO Students.
As I mentioned last week, I’m working with a client who is interested in helping her teachers to improve the overall quality of the feedback that they give to students. That’s an important step to...
View ArticleHelping Primary Students to Track their Own Progress Towards Mastery.
A few weeks back, I wrote a bit on the Radical talking about Unit Overview Sheets — a strategy that I use in my classroom to help students assess their own progress towards mastering important...
View ArticleThree Most Important Qualities of Responsible Assessment
Regular Radical Readers know that one of the people who has had the greatest impact on my practice is a fellow eighth grade science teacher named Paul Cancellieri. Paul is a genius in most things, but...
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