I am delighted to say that after a meeting with Charles Crook, the Director of the Learning Science Research Institute (LSRI) from October 2011, there is the open invitation to use their facilities for community events. The LSRI at the university of Nottingham has meeting rooms laden with monitoring equipment to capture, stream and archive ...
Over on Google+ I have conducted a short survey to further explore the challenges that educators face when attempting to implement assessment for learning strategies in schools. By which I mean a focus on the process of learning, improving student’s metacognition, sustained opportunities for reflection and a general effort to assess “for” learning not “of” ...
Although a fairly narrow view on the barriers to implementing assessment for learning, the cross section of views shared on the Google Document have been excellent as a starting point for discussion. The above Wordle is a helpful representation of those contributions. I have removed the following words from the visual: assessment, formative, teachers, learning ...