The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in High-Stakes Assessment
Can AI revolutionise the way we assess students?
Can AI revolutionise the way we assess students?
How long should a lesson observation be to determine teaching quality?
How can schools use lesson observations to reliably evaluate the teaching taking place?
Are learning walks a waste to time?
Can Ofsted inspectors look through pupils’ books with any degree of reliability?
How reliable are OfSTED inspections and the overall assessments of the inspection teams?
Why has educational research failed to provide us with any widely accepted sense that we have discovered new and improved ways of educating our children?
This is another blog about lesson gradings and the Ofsted pilot, conducted in the Midlands in June 2014. I also offer a suggestion, regardless of whether or not you are in favour of individual lesson gradings.
It may be that 2014 will be seen as a pivotal year in changing how we judge the quality of teaching. The move from grading individual lessons to viewing teaching, students’ work and progress over time and in a more sophisticated way has only just begun.