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The Development of Formative Assessment

Black, P; Wiliam, D; (2003) The Development of Formative Assessment. In: Davis, B and West-Burnham, J, (eds.) Handbook of Educational Leadership and Management. (pp. 409-418). Pearson Education: London, UK.

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Abstract

The value of formative assessment (or assessment for learning as it is now sometimes called) for enhancing students' attainment in science has been attested by a variety of research studies (see Black & Wiliam, 1998a for a review of these). In suggesting how this work might be taken forward (Black & Wiliam 1998b), we argued for development work in partnership between researchers and teachers, and since then we have been able to carry out such a project. The main result of this work has been that the teachers involved have made very significant changes in their classroom practices, whilst also improving the performance of their students (Wiliam and Lee, 2001). These changes turned out to be more radical in character than the simple addition of some formative assessment routines to pre-existing practice. In this chapter, we shall draw on the teachers’ written reflections on their involvement with the project (made near the end of the project) in order to review the main outcomes of this work, and we shall then consider the implications, both for pedagogy and for the task of leadership and management in schools.

Type: Book chapter
Title: The Development of Formative Assessment
ISBN-13: 9780273656685
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1507191
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