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Assessing Assessment In which Leon and Alex discuss why we've been off air; a bit of feedback including from Alex's nearest and dearest; our move to SoundCloud for our uncut interviews (let us know what you think); why Alex is joining a hip new choir; Daisy Christodolou's new book on Assessment; Comparative judgement with Christian Bokhove; some blog based book reviews; some education articles in the news and a bit of a rant; and some non-negotiables with another rant. We also have another book review. Sponsors and Partners Thank you to Aston Microphones for supporting our show. Thank you to Innovate My School for helping promote our show. If you are interested in sponsoring us please let us know. Feedback Please give feedback by using #theEdFiles on Twitter or in our group on Facebook. Or just feedback straight to us via this page - click and record - it is as simple as that. Click here to give us feedback Mailing List To join our mailing list to be notified of the upcoming episode - please subscribe here. Show Notes Your hosts are Alex Weatherall and Leon Cych. Tonight's show notes Making Good Progress - Daisy Christodolou https://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Good-Progress-Assessment-Learning/dp/0198413602 Daisy Christodoulou on twitter: https://twitter.com/daisychristo Daisy has blogged about her book here: https://thewingtoheaven.wordpress.com/2017/01/03/making-good-progress-the-future-of-assessment-for-learning/ Christian Bokhove on twitter: https://twitter.com/cbokhove Christian has blogged about Daisy's book here: https://bokhove.net/2017/02/13/notes-on-making-good-progress-summary-blog/ No More Marking: https://www.nomoremarking.com/ Using Comparative Judgement to rank Physics concept statements https://readingforlearning.org/2017/02/07/using-comparative-judgement-to-rank-the-importance-of-concepts/ Quirky Teacher's blogs on books Cleverlands by Lucy Crehan https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cleverlands-Secrets-Success-Education-Superpowers/dp/1783522739 Becky Allen's article on reliability of Ofsted http://schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-inspections-are-unreliable-by-design/ George Monbiot in the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/15/robots-schools-teaching-children-redundant-testing-learn-future Carpet Time Music - Fretless by Kevin McCleod - CC Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg - review by Cat Campbell https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00BBA6FOI Partner message Thank you to Innovate My School for helping promote our show. Here are some upcoming events: The events are targeting all school leaders in the Hackney (1st March), Manchester (7th March) and Birmingham (15th March) areas for our three events and want to direct school leaders to www.innovatemyschool.com/upcoming-events Non-negotiables https://twitter.com/Mister_Shiney/status/830440390444580864 Thank you for listening to the Ed Files, follow us on twitter @TheEdFiles |