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...
by LSI Dylan Wiliam Center | Nov 29, 2014 | Formative Assessment
In 38% of well-designed studies, feedback actually made performance worse—one of the most counterintuitive results in all of psychology. If there’s a single principle teachers need to digest about classroom feedback, it’s this: The only thing that matters is what...