by LSI Dylan Wiliam Center | Nov 19, 2018 | Evaluation, Formative Assessment, Professional Development, School Culture, School Transformation, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation
LSI author Dylan Wiliam sits down with Ollie Lovell of ERRR (Education Research Reading Room) to discuss his book Leadership for Teacher Learning. Dylan Wiliam is author of the best-selling book Embedding Formative Assessment, and his...
by LSI Dylan Wiliam Center | May 11, 2018 | Formative Assessment, Teaching
All those who produce tests claim that their tests are valid and reliable. Unfortunately, such claims are meaningless, because tests cannot be valid, and they cannot be reliable. A failure to understand why such claims are incorrect means that the substantial power of...
by LSI Dylan Wiliam Center | May 4, 2015 | Formative Assessment
By Dylan Wiliam Question 1 I know you’re from the UK and have spent a lot of time in various countries overseas. Can you share a little bit about your experiences and key accomplishments in the United States? Answer 1 In 2003, I started working as Senior Research...
by LSI Dylan Wiliam Center | Mar 2, 2015 | Formative Assessment
Content, Then Process In professional development, the details matter. And process should always come after content. In previous blog posts, I’ve written a lot about the content of formative assessment; namely the five key strategies and associated practical...
by LSI Dylan Wiliam Center | Feb 3, 2015 | Formative Assessment
By Dylan Wiliam Why I wrote my new book My latest book, written with Siobhán Leahy, is designed specifically to help individual teachers who want to develop their practice of formative assessment on their own or with small groups of colleagues. In this blog, I provide...
by LSI Dylan Wiliam Center | Jan 6, 2015 | Formative Assessment
By Dylan Wiliam What Dance Teachers Know At Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, a high school jazz dance class is in session. The teacher has organized the dancers so each student is partnered. When Alannah Miles starts belting out “Black Velvet” from the...
