The best evidence syntheses (BESs) bring together research evidence about ‘what works’ for diverse (all) learners in education. Recent BESs each include a number of cases that describe actual examples of professional practice and then analyse the findings. These cases support educators to grasp the big ideas behind effective practice at the same time as they provide vivid insight into their application.
Linking assessment-for-learning strategies to student goals can lead to improvements in students’ academic achievement and self-regulatory practices.
This case demonstrates how teacher and student competency matrices can be used to create a vision for teaching and learning based on assessment-for-learning principles.
Used to analyse records of practice (such as video or audio) against a set of criteria, matrices can be a powerful tool for teachers, enabling them to gauge where they are at and where to go next. This case demonstrates how this can be done.