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A rubric for assessment? What a joke! Revisted

July 7, 2025

A lighthearted look at rubrics as a form of assessment.

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In On this day, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT, Assessment Tags rubrics, assessment
Questions, by Terry Freedman

Questions, by Terry Freedman

Hot Potatoes Cloze Exercise

April 12, 2025

A simple, and very old-fashioned looking, cloze exercise!

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In Assessment Tags Hot Potatoes, test, assessment

How I reduced my marking time from 4 hours a week to 15 minutes

April 1, 2025

Reading each student’s work each week, at a rate of ten minutes each, took nearly two and a half hours. Thinking of suitable comments, adding them in to the appropriate place in Google Classroom, and updating my spreadsheet markbook took another hour and a half.

Something had to be done.

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In AI, Alternatives, On the lighter side Tags marking, assessment, automation, spreadsheet

A big question mark, by Terry Freedman

The DfE's foray into AI for education: the good news and the (potentilly) bad news

March 20, 2025

We don’t have very long to wait before the educational AI projects funded by the Department for Education are unveiled, if all goes to plan. But I have some concerns.

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In Assessment, AI, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, News & views Tags AI, assessment, DfE

Reflections on assessing computing

August 10, 2024

This article was originally published some time ago, when there was a previous iteration of the National Computing. However, although the context has changed, many of the issues remain, which is why I've decided to republish. I hope you find it useful. It has been lightly edited to remove dud links)

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In Assessment, Blast from the past Tags assessment, Rules Base

The perfect evaluation method is an ever-receeding goal. Photo by Terry Freedman

Course evaluations and their pitfalls

June 21, 2024

I think evaluations are very odd devices to be honest. Someone once “marked me down” on her evaluation of a one day course I was running on the grounds that the traffic was terrible. I pointed out to her that I wasn’t in charge of local traffic conditions and that she should complain to the council.

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In Assessment Tags evaluations, course evaluations, assessment

Testing pupils using stories (Update)

June 29, 2023

Here’s a different and more engaging way of testing pupils’ knowledge, skills and understanding. This is an updated version of an article I wrote in 2020. This version includes some ChatGPT-generated additions.

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In Assessment, Audio Tags assessment, testing, stories, audio

My automated assessment machine

My issues with assessment by AI

September 13, 2022

I have serious misgivings about the use of AI to assess students’ work.

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In Assessment, Discussion topic Tags AI, artificial intelligence, assessment
Crowds and queues, by Terry Freedman

Crowds and queues, by Terry Freedman

Job-seeking as a metaphor for assessment in computing

May 12, 2022

jobs lineWhen I saw several hundred people lining up for some sort of job registration recently, I immediately thought of the challenges of assessing pupils’ educational technology capability. A bit of a stretch? Not necessarily.

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In Assessment Tags assessment, assessing computing

Perverse incentives in assessment (Updated)

February 15, 2022

Trying to be helpful to pupils while assessing their understanding could actually be counter-productive.

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In Assessment, Digital Education, Unintended consequences Tags assessment, assessing ICT, assessing Computing, Dylan Wiliam

Using badges

November 18, 2021

The attractive thing about badges is that a school can invent their own categories and achievement levels.

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In Assessment, From the Archives Tags assessing ICT, assessment, assessing Computing, assessment for learning

The problems with rubrics

October 21, 2021

Rubrics look like an easy way to tackle assessment. But they can be deceptive in that respect, and can cause the unwary to slip up.

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In Assessment, From the Archives, On this day, Blast from the past Tags assessing ICT, assessing Computing, assessment, rubrics

How to create a grade-prediction system in Excel, and save yourself loads of time (Updated)

May 24, 2021

Spotting the unexpected results of mock exams of scores or even hundreds of students need no longer be a nightmare.

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In Assessment Tags grade predictor, assessment, assessing ICT, assessing Computing
Discussing, by Terry Freedman

Discussing, by Terry Freedman

Discussing exam grades with students

February 15, 2021

Is there anyone in the Department for Education who understands that education is more than issuing edicts?

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In Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, News & views Tags exam, DfE, assessment
On This Day, by Terry Freedman

On This Day, by Terry Freedman

On this day #12: usability, assessment, tiffs, pointless data and Computing

December 6, 2020

Gosh! I don’t know if there is something special about the date December 6th — like the Ides of March, say — but I seem to have been astonishingly prolific on that date.

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In From the Archives, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, On this day Tags usability, assessment, tiff, data, Computing
Who?

Who?

Does anyone know Adam from Adam?

December 3, 2020

I have to say I think it is really insulting to have someone who looks like he has just finished studying for ‘A’ Levels himself telling us why exams are best.

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In Assessment, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, News & views Tags assessing Computing and ICT, assessment

On this day #7: Marking workload reduction

November 22, 2020

The only thing worse than feeling tired but knowing you have to mark 30 books by tomorrow morning is that feeling of ennui at 5 o-clock on a grim Sunday evening when all you want to do is curl up with a mug of tea and watch a movie, but having those exercise books smirking back at you.

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In Assessment, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, On this day Tags marking, assessment

On this day #5: The importance of not being nice

November 10, 2020

It’s important to be nice — but even more important to be honest. I wrote this article on 10 November 2011, and still think it holds true today.

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In Blast from the past, From the Archives, News & views, On this day Tags nice, honesty, evaluation, assessment
Questions, by Terry Freedman

Questions, by Terry Freedman

A new assessment resource

October 21, 2020

A new assessment resource has come to my attention. It shows the keywords and synonyms in the SAMR and Bloom’s Taxonomy models, and apps which enable the teacher to address those areas.

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In Assessment, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags assessment, assessment wheel, SAMR, Bloom's Taxonomy, assessing Computing and ICT

On this day #1: Assessment

September 30, 2020

Why bother with theories of assessment? Surely all that matters is whether or not it works?

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In Blast from the past, On this day, Assessment Tags assessing Computing and ICT, assessing ICT, assessing Computing, assessment
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