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Practice guide
Explain learning objectives
This practice guide will help teachers create, explain and use well-informed learning objectives and success criteria and activate students’ prior knowledge.
Explainer
Explicit instruction optimises learning
This explainer provides an introduction to explicit instruction, with a focus on explaining how it contributes to positive outcomes for students’ learning achievement and dispositions.
Explainer
Formative assessment
In formative assessment, you gather and interpret information about student learning as it is happening in your classroom. It helps you to adapt your teaching to meet student needs.
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Formative assessment at Walford Anglican School for Girls
Kerri Proctor, Head of English at Walford Anglican School for Girls, uses different formative assessment methods to track students' progress.
Practice resource
Formative assessment example of practice
This example comes from a Year 7 English class where a formative assessment task was to gather data about students’ writing and interpretive skills.
Practice resource
Formative assessment implementation checklist
This checklist focuses on formative assessment. It is a list of practical steps you can take to support the implementation of an evidence-based practice in your setting.
Video
Formative assessment in English
Formative assessment is a teaching practice that evidence says makes a difference. In this video, Melissa Garstang-Leary explains how she uses formative assessment in her English lessons.
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Formative assessment in maths
Formative assessment is a teaching practice that evidence says makes a difference. In this video, Sue Davis explains how she uses formative assessment in her maths lessons.
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Formative assessment in science
Formative assessment is a teaching practice that evidence says makes a difference. In this video, Darcie Clarke explains how she uses formative assessment in her science lessons.
Practice guide
Formative assessment practice guide
This guide outlines key practices for using formative assessment in the classroom.
Practice resource
Formative assessment rubric
This rubric outlines a set of capabilities to do with the evidence-based practice of formative assessment.
Project
How students learn
Our work on how students learn best (also known as the science of learning) connects cognitive science, neuroscience and education psychology research on the learning process with practical teaching implications.