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Working inside the Black Box: Assessment for Learning in the Classroom
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'Inside the Black Box' (Phi Delta Kappan, October 1998) summarized research evidence that showed that improving the quality of teachers' day-to-day classroom assessment could have substantial impact on students' learning. Here we report on one study that has attempted to put this into practice with 24 secondary school mathematics and science teachers in England. Through the use of improved questioning techniques, feedback focusing on how to improve rather than grading, and involving students in peer-assessment and self-assessment, teachers found that the motivation and attitudes of their students improved, and the students achieved higher scores on externally set tests and examinations than other students at the same schools.
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“For the nineteen teachers on whom we had reliable data, the average effect size was around 0.3.”
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- Rests on an assumption: The varied output measures used by teachers validly measure learning gains relevant to the project.
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“The pupils also became much more aware of when they were learning, and when they were not.”
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“The teachers also shift in their role, from presenters of content to leaders of an exploration and development of ideas in which all pupils are involved.”
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“Observations made in several English classrooms saw children engaged in peer assessment apply lessons learned during this activity to their own work.”
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“These results often surprise teachers, but those who have abandoned the giving of marks find that their experience confirms the findings: pupils do engage more productively in improving their work.”
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“In the KMOFAP classrooms, as the teachers came to listen more attentively to the pupils' responses, they began to appreciate more fully that learning was not a process of passive reception of knowledge, but one in which the learners were active in creating their own understandings.”
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“Changes with the KMOFAP teachers came slowly and steadily, as experience developed and confidence grew in the use of the various strategies for enriching feedback and interaction.”
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“The effect of the innovations implemented by our teachers was to change the 'classroom contract' between the teacher and the pupil-the rules, usually implicit, that govern the behaviours that are expected and seen as legitimate by teachers and pupils.”
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“The first was that the assessment methods that teachers use are not effective in promoting good learning.”
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“Many teachers do not plan and conduct classroom dialogue in ways that might help pupils to learn.”
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“Whilst this has amply confirmed the original proposals, it has also added a wealth of new findings which are both practical and authentic.”
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“This is equivalent to just under half of a level at key stage 2, just over half a level at key stage 3, and just over half a grade at GCSE.”
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“Pupils came to understand what counted as good work through exemplification.Sometimes this was done through focused whole-class discussion around a particular example; at others it was achieved through pupils using criteria to assess the work of their peers.”
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“teachers learnt more about the pre-knowledge of their pupils, and about any gaps and mis-conceptions in that knowledge, so that their next moves could address the learners' real needs.”
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“Initial fears about how pupils might react turned out to be unjustified, and neither parents nor OFSTED inspectors have reacted adversely.”
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“Where such changes have been made, experience has shown that pupils become more active as participants, and come to realise that learning may depend less on their capacity to spot the right answer and more on their readiness to express and discuss their own understanding.”
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“Despite these differences, experience has shown that the generic skills that have been developed do apply across subjects.”
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- Rests on an assumption: The experiences and reports from the KMOFAP project teachers are representative enough to support general conclusions about classroom practice.
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“Increasing the wait time can lead to more pupils being involved in question and answer discussions, and to an increase in the length of their replies.”
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“Those that are the most successful are those rich tasks which provide pupils with an opportunity either to extend their understanding of a concept within the text or to 'scaffold' their ideas before writing.Characteristically these include small group and pair work, the reflections often being fed back into a whole class discussion.”
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“Five of the schools in the KMOFAP project have, following the experience of their science and mathematics teachers, modified their policies to allow comment only marking; for two of these the modification was that no marks or grades be given on homework throughout the school.”
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“The findings presented here are based on the observations and records of visits to classrooms by the King's team, records of meetings of the whole group of teachers, interviews with and writing by the teachers themselves, and a few discussions with pupil groups.”
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“All of this makes us confident that our general findings will be of value to all, although some important details may differ between different age groups and different subjects.”
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- Rests on an assumption: The contexts of the KMOFAP project are sufficiently similar to other subjects, phases, and schools for its general findings to apply to all.
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“Here again, the published evidence gave a clear and positive answer, presenting a detailed picture which identified three main problems.”
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“There is, however, more involved because comments only become useful feedback if pupils use them to guide further work, so new procedures are needed:”
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“This linkage can help in the development of the skills and the detachment needed for effective self-assessment.”
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“Peer work is also valuable because the interchange will be in language that pupils themselves would naturally use, and because pupils learn by taking the roles of teachers and examiners of others (Sadler, 1998):”
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“The better the quality of the task the better the quality of the interventions.”
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“The aftermath of tests can also be an occasion for formative work.”
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“At the same time it can enhance pupils' skills and strategies for effective learning.”
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“However, after a while it became clear that these generic strategies could go only so far.”
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“Pupils' reflection about their understanding can also be used to inform future teachingtheir feedback can indicate where more time needs to be spent on some topics and where it can be saved on others.”
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“Research experiments have established that, whilst pupils' learning can be advanced by feedback through comments, the giving of marks-or grades-has a negative effect in that pupils ignore comments when marks are also given (Butler, 1988).”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Butler, 1988 source
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“Indeed, the provision of comments to pupils helps parents to focus on the learning issues rather than on trying to interpret a mark or grade.”
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“In addition to this advantage, peer-assessment is also valuable in placing the work in the hands of the pupils.The teacher can be free to observe and reflect on what is happening and to frame helpful interventions:”
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“The last sentence of this quotation brings out an important point-when pupils do not understand an explanation, they are likely to interrupt a fellow pupil when they would not interrupt a teacher.”
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“Differences between learning tasks can be understood in terms of a spectrum.At one end are 'closed' tasks with a single well defined outcome, at the other are 'open' tasks with a wide range of acceptable outcomes.”
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“The main point here is that peer and self-assessment make unique contributions to the development of pupils' learning-they secure aims that cannot be achieved in any other way.”
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“The practices of self and peer-assessment can be applied to help pupils prepare for examinations, for example in tackling the following problem:”
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“Choosing a good question requires a detailed knowledge of the subject, but this is not the knowledge that is gained from advanced study in a subject.”
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“A high level of subject qualification is less important than a thorough understanding of the fundamental principles of the subject, an understanding of the kinds of difficulties that pupils might have, and the creativity to think up questions which can stimulate productive thinking.”
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“For such peer-group work to succeed, many pupils will need guidance about how to behave in groups, e.g. in listening to one another and taking turns.”
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“Preparation of test questions calls for, and so develops, an overview of the topic:”
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“In more open exercises, as in investigations of the application of mathematical thinking to everyday problems, there may be a variety of good solutions; then an understanding of the criteria of quality is harder to achieve and may require an iteration in discussion between examples and the abstract criteria which they exemplify.”
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“These traffic lights then form the basis of a revision plan.”
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“Implementation of such reforms can change the attitudes of both teachers and pupils to written work: the assessment of pupils' work will be seen less as a competitive and summative judgement and more as a distinctive step in the process of learning”
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“We had, after all, stressed that feedback functioned formatively only if the information fed back to the learner was EMBARGOED UNTIL JULY 2 nd © Please do not copy or circulate used by the learner in improving performance.”
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“Engaging in peer-and self-assessment is much more than just checking for errors or weaknesses.It involves making explicit what is normally implicit, and thus requires the pupils to be active in their learning.”
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“A second important function of peer-and self-assessment was brought out by Sadler (1989), who argued that criteria alone are unhelpful in judging the quality of a piece of work or in guiding progression because there will always be too many variables.The key lies in knowing how to interpret the criteria in any particular case-which involves 'guild knowledge'.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Sadler (1989) source
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“they can all be used for tests where teachers have control over the setting and the marking, but their application may be more limited for tests where the teacher has little or no control.”
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“Pupils told that feedback ' …will help you to learn' learn more than those told that 'how you do tells us how smart you are and what grades you'll get'; the difference is greatest for low attainers (Newman & Schwager, 1995).”
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“A comprehensive review of research studies of feedback showed that feedback improved performance in 60% of them.In the cases where it was not helpful, the feedback turned out to be merely a judgment or grading with no indication of how to improve (Kluger & DeNisi, 1996).”
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“The key to effective learning is to then find ways to help pupils restructure their knowledge to build in new and more powerful ideas.”
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“Thus, although the general principles of formative assessment apply across all subjects, the ways in which they manifest themselves in different subjects may differ.We have encountered such differences in making comparisons between teachers of mathematics, science, and English.”
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“Insofar as they do so they begin to develop an overview of that work so that it becomes possible for them to manage and control it for themselves: in other words, they are developing the capacity to work at a meta-cognitive level.”
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“Those given feedback as marks are likely to see it as a way to compare themselves with others (ego-involvement), those given only comments see it as helping them to improve (task-involvement): the latter group out-perform the former (Butler, 1987).”
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“Put simply, it became clear that, no matter what the pressure to achieve good test and examination scores, learning cannot be done for the pupil; it has to be done by the pupil.”
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“The central point here is that, to be effective, feedback should cause thinking to take place.”
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“However, self-assessment will only happen if teachers help their pupils, particularly the low-attainers, to develop the skill.”
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“In a competitive system, low attainers attribute their performance to lack of 'ability', high attainers to their effort; in a task oriented system, all attribute to effort, and learning is improved, particularly amongst low attainers (Craven et al. 1991).”
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“Teachers acquire this through assessing pupils' work and it is this process which allows them to differentiate between grades and gain a sense of how progression is achieved.”
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“Thus, in varying measure, the guidance needed for these two types of learning work will be needed in all subjects.”
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“However, it is unrealistic to expect teachers and pupils' to practice such separation, so the challenge is to achieve a more positive relationship between the two.”
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“A numerical mark does not tell pupil how to improve their work, so an opportunity to enhance their learning has been lost.”
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“The point of this is to stimulate the pupils to reflect on where they feel their learning is secure, which they mark green, and where they need to concentrate their efforts, in amber and red.”
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“It can focus pupils' attention on their 'ability' rather than on the importance of effort, damaging the self-esteem of low attainers and leading to problems of 'learned helplessness' (Dweck 1986).”
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“Again peer-and self-assessment are intimately linked.”
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“By active involvement in the test process, pupils can see that they can be beneficiaries rather than victims of testing, because tests can help them improve their learning.”
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“what the teachers needed was to be able to give their pupils feedback that they knew in advance was going to be useful.To do that they needed to build up models of how pupils learn.”
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“Such activities not only provide pupils with a chance to develop their understanding through talk, they also provide the teacher with the opportunity to give feedback during the course of a lesson through further questioning and guidance.”
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“Peer marking of test papers can be helpful, as with normal written work, and is particularly useful if pupils are required first to formulate a mark scheme, an exercise which focuses attention on criteria of quality relevant to their productions.”
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“Many who have tried to develop self-assessment skills have found that the first and most difficult task is to get pupils to think of their work in terms of a set of goals.”
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“Learning is not just a cognitive exercise: it involves the whole person.”
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“Tasks in English are mainly at the open end, e.g. the writing of a poem, but there are closed components e.g. for grammatical or genre conventions.Tasks in (say) mathematics are more often closed, but applications of mathematics to everyday problems can require open-ended evaluations.”
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“Such feedback can enhance learning, both directly through the effort that can ensue, and indirectly by supporting the motivation to invest such effort.”
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“In English, peer-and self-assessment have a long history.It follows from the nature of the subject and the open outcome of many of the tasks characteristically set, that they are EMBARGOED UNTIL JULY 2 nd © Please do not copy or circulate central to one of its overall aims-which is to enhance the critical judgement of the pupils.”
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“Again this type of work is not uncommon in English, the skill being to make the task sufficiently structured to scaffold learning but not so tightly defined as to limit thinking.”
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“This can take time and practice:”
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“Policies can actually, or by interpretation, constrain use of formative assessment.A notable example would be a policy that, by demanding that a mark or grade be given on every piece of homework, prevents the serious use of comments.”
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“A second principle is that the learning environment envisaged requires a classroom culture that may well be unfamiliar and disconcerting for both teachers and pupils.”
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“Another example would be that a target setting system that required very frequent review would inhibit any change in learning methods which might slow down immediate 'progress' in order to produce medium to long term gains in learning skills.”
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“It follows that support, evaluation, and subsequent dissemination of innovation in assessment for learning will only be planned in a coherent way if responsibility for strategic oversight of the development is assigned to a member of the school leadership team.”
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“Our experience supports the view that to realise the promise of formative assessment by leaving a few keen individuals to get on with it would be unfair to them, whilst to do it by a policy requiring all staff immediately to change their personal roles and styles in their classrooms would be absurd.”
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The contexts of the KMOFAP project are sufficiently similar to other subjects, phases, and schools for its general findings to apply to all.
“All of this makes us confident that our general findings will be of value to all, although some important details may differ between different age groups and different subjects.”
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The control classes and input ability measures adequately control for pre-existing differences, so the measured effect sizes reflect the project's impact.
“Where the project and the control classes were not strictly parallel, we controlled for possible differences in EMBARGOED UNTIL JULY 2 nd © Please do not copy or circulate ability by the use of 'input' measures, such as scores on the NFER's Cognitive Abilities Test, or school test scores from the previous year.”
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The varied output measures used by teachers validly measure learning gains relevant to the project.
“Each teacher decided what was to be the 'output' measure for their class.For year 11 classes this was generally the GCSE grades achieved, and for year 9 classes it was generally the score or level achieved in the national curriculum tests.For other classes, a variety of measures were used including end-of-module-test scores and marks on the school's end-of-year exams.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Teachers' self-reports, written pieces, and project observations reliably reflect classroom practice and its effects.
“The findings presented here are based on the observations and records of visits to classrooms by the King's team, records of meetings of the whole group of teachers, interviews with and writing by the teachers themselves, and a few discussions with pupil groups.”
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Pupils will only invest effort in a task if they believe they can achieve something.
“Pupils will only invest effort in a task if they believe that they can achieve something.”
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Many pupils acquire alternative conceptions in science outside school, and these are well documented.
“However, outside school, many pupils acquire different ideas.”
“Many of these 'alternative conceptions' can be anticipated for they have been well documented.”
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Mere presentation of the correct scientific view is ineffective.
“What has also been documented is that mere presentation of the 'correct' view has been shown to be ineffective.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The experiences and reports from the KMOFAP project teachers are representative enough to support general conclusions about classroom practice.
“Our experiences in the project all point to the need to re-think a teacher's core aimenhancing pupils' learning.”
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“Such assessment becomes formative assessment when the evidence is actually used to adapt the teaching to meet learning needs (Black et al. 2002).”
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“Convincing evidence for assessment is presented by Black et al. (2004) stating that for the improvement of student’s learning, assessment acts as a milestone (Buldu & Buldu, 2010).”
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- Authors
- Black, P., Harrison, C., Lee, C., Marshall, B., & Wiliam, D.
- Affiliations
- King's College London (GB)
- Venue
- Phi Delta Kappan
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2004-09
- Volume
- 86
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 8-21
- ISSN
- 0031-7217 (ISSN-L)
- 1940-6487
- OpenAlex
- W2136326226
- Cited by
- 1,323
- References
- 14
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- FWCI
- 188.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- discovery.ucl.ac.uk
- Locations
- Phi Delta Kappan (publishedVersion)
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- IOE EPrints (submittedVersion)
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- Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion)
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- Funders
- Nuffield Foundation
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Student Assessment and Feedback
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Social Sciences › Education › Evaluation of Teaching Practices
- Keywords
- assessment for learning, classroom assessment, questioning strategies, feedback, peer assessment, self-assessment, student motivation, student attitudes, high school mathematics, secondary school science, academic performance
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