The SecEd Podcast: Effective marking and feedback for teachers

Following our popular podcast on quality first teaching (https://bit.ly/2R5PIT8), this episode looks specifically at effective marking and feedback practice for teachers.

Our experts offer ideas and tips to ensure your marking and feedback is effective.

Themes include: the purposes of teacher assessment, school assessment policies, consistency across the school, using assessment to inform curriculum-planning, target-setting, tracking progress, using assessment data, assessment points, and addressing misconceptions.

We offer tips to reduce workload, including how to “live mark” during lessons, verbal mark schemes, self & peer-assessment, code-marking, hinge questions, exit tickets etc. And tips for effective feedback, including whole-class feedback, feedback sheets etc.