Tips for Teachers by Craig Barton

Book 6. Checking for understanding

Here are the resources referenced in the Tips for Teachers guide to Checking for Understanding.

Want to know more?

  1. Check out a bunch of videos on checking for understanding here

Footnotes

  1. Inside the Black Box by Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam. Read an analysis of the paper here
  2. Responsive coaching by Josh Goodrich, available here
  3. How I wish I’d taught maths by Craig Barton, available here:
  4. A Study of Students’ Readiness to Learn Calculus by Carlson, Madison, and West. Read an analysis of this paper here
  5. The effect of hint strength on the benefits of retrieval practice by Vaughn et al. Read an analysis of this paper here
  6. Nathan Day has a fantastic website called Interwoven Maths, available here
  7. You can read my post, The Myth of Copying things down, here
  8. You can read my post, Correcting in green pen does not work, here
  9. Diagnostic Questions is a website I co-founded. You can see it here
  10. Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments by Justin Kruger and David Dunning. Read an analysis of the paper here
  11. Listen to Clare Sealy discuss the power of emotional resonance here
  12. An analysis of undergraduate core material in the light of hand-held computer algebra systems by Pointon and Sangwin. Read an analysis of the paper here
  13. I discuss the Give an Example of framework in my 4th Coaching Case study newsletter, available here
  14. You can access Middleton Maths’ excellent resources here
  15. Wait Time: Slowing Down May Be A Way of Speeding Up! By Mary Budd Rowe. Read an analysis of the paper here
  16. The “curse of knowledge” when predicting others’ knowledge by Tullis and Feder. Read an analysis of the paper here
  17. Adam Boxer emphasises the importance of front-loading the means of participation and addresses the issue of calling out here
  18. Shameless plug alert, but there is a book in this series all about mastering Cold Call: The Tips for Teachers guide to Cold Call
  19. You can read Adam Boxer’s post on Indicators here
  20. You can listen to my conversation with Sammy Kempner here
  21. Listen to my discussion 8ith Sammy Kempner about group responsibility here