4. Staff benefits of working this way
• By deciding on criteria/statements/questions before marking, you
only have to use a colour/number.
• It can take as little as 15 mins to mark a set of books.
• Prevents writing the same WWW and EBI in lots of books
5. Benefits to learners
1. Misconceptions and gaps in knowledge easily identified
2. DIRT can be used to fill gaps in understanding
3. Quality and Quantity of learner work improves over time (improve
knowledge, skills, accelerate progress and prepare for exams
4. Attitudes to work improve
7. Advantages can be split into 3 areas
1. Quality of Teaching and Learning
1. Student Outcomes
1. Staff Wellbeing
8. Quality of Teaching & Learning
1. Staff have greater understanding of where students ‘are’ so pitch
lesson more accurately
2. There is a more consistently applied approach to feedback
3. Students know we have a higher expectation and respond
accordingly
4. More time is available for planning great lessons
5. Staff have a clearer understanding of the way exams are structured
and are more engaged with Markschemes
9. Student Outcomes
1. Staff have more accurately predicted students attainment levels
2. In 2013 students attained 83% of the national average marks on
long answer questions. This rose to 99% this year.
10. Staff Wellbeing
1. Reduction of workload - takes less than 30 minutes to mark a set of
books
2. Improved attitude towards marking - Staff see tangible benefits &
are more invested in it
3. Don’t get in a “marking hole” - feedback links lesson, no need to go
back and retrospectively mark old classwork
