Author: Craig Barton
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Tip 94. Turn feedback into detective work
Dylan’s idea of making feedback into detective work is summarised nicely here Mark Roberts shared a great thread on 10 classic errors teachers make when giving feedback here General links
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Tip 93. Be careful how you respond to “silly” mistakes
You can find my circles sequence of questions here For a good overview of cognitive load theory, specifically about not overloading working memory, check out the post from InnerDrive here Mark Roberts shared a great thread on 10 classic errors teachers make when giving feedback here General links
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Tip 92. Two things to check if homework or test scores are a surprise
You can access the resources on checking for understanding here, and the resources on retrieval scheduling here General links
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Tip 91. Eight ideas to improve homework
My template for students creating diagnostic questions is here Adam Boxer’s product, Carousel Learning, is here Adam Boxer has a greart blog post entitled The four planks of an effective homework policy here Tom Sherrington writes about setting great homework here Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics by Peter Liljedahl is available here General links
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Tip 90. Make homework feed into lessons
Adam Boxer has written up the key points from this video in a blog post entitled The four planks of an effective homework policy here Adam’s product, Carousel Learning, is here General links
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Tip 89. Consider using Trello to help organise the disorganised
You can access Trello here Adam Boxer describes how he uses Trello in his department here General links
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Tip 88. Fifteen ideas to improve the Do Now
A summary of all 15 ideas: Adam Boxer has an interesting article about the Do Now here Tom Sherrington makes some really interesting points about daily quizzes such as the Do Now here. It is also worth reading the comments in the Twitter thread here I also really like this post from InnerDrive about not…
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Tip 87. Twenty-one ideas to improve your Low-Stakes Quizzes
A summary of all 21 ideas: The Carpenter et al paper is available here Tom Sherrington makes some really interesting points about Low-Stakes Quizzes here. It is also worth reading the comments in the Twitter thread here I also really like this post from InnerDrive about not letting retrieval practice become gimmicky here General links
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Tip 86. Make corrections quizzable
I first discussed the idea on my Mr Barton Maths podcast with Ollie Lovell, available here Good apps for creating online versions of the cards are Quizlet and Anki General links
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Tip 85. Get your students to assign confidence scores to their answers
Our research paper on confidence is available here You can read about the Hypercorrection Effect here Colin Foster writes about confidence-based marking here Confidence scores assigned to answers to multiple-choice questions is an interesting area of research. You can read more here General links