Alex Cameron proposes changes to assessment and feedback in mathematics to increase student involvement. The proposal includes administering short diagnostic assessments with questions testing different objectives, and providing formative tasks with scaffolding and examples to support students. Students would write "WWW and EBI statements" about their own learning, reducing teacher input and increasing student responsibility. The document discusses trialing sample assessment questions and describes formats to guide students and elicit their explanations.

1. Alex Cameron
Holloway School
Cameron.a52@Holloway.Islington.sch.uk
A proposal for assessment and feedback.
Why?
• Move the marking policy away from a high teacher input to high pupil input
• Move towards more shared formative feedback and tasks
• Raise profile of Mathematical AO2 (reasoning) and AO3 (problem solving)
objectives
• with pupils
• with staff
• More high-quality, low-stakes assessment

2. Alex Cameron
Holloway School
Cameron.a52@Holloway.Islington.sch.uk
A proposal for assessment and feedback.
What?
• A diagnostic
• Six questions two AO1 (fluency), two AO2 (reasoning) and two AO3 (problem
solving)
• Formative task
• Supported by explanation, scaffold task, examples, fill in gaps
• ‘www’ and ‘ebi’ statements that the students scribe (not the teacher)

3. This is nice, but
takes time to
do for all
pupils.
High teacher
input can
discourage
teachers from
doing it
frequently.
Student input
is much lower
than the
teacher input.

4. This is nice, but
takes time to
do for all
pupils.
High teacher
input can
discourage
teachers from
doing it
frequently.
Student input
is much lower
than the
teacher input.

5. Question set 1 – full size
AO1 a - Fluency
Work out:
AO2 a - Reasoning
Explain which is the odd one out.
AO3 a – Problem Solving
Write down 12 numbers so that two
thirds of the list are even numbers.
AO1 b - Fluency
Work out:
AO2 b - Reasoning
Show why two thirds and six ninths
are equivalent fractions.
(Communicate using diagrams and words.)
AO3 b – Problem Solving
Chocolate needs to be shared equally.
Group 1 has one bar of chocolate and
there are already 3 people in the group.
Group 2 has two bars of chocolate and
there are already 5 people in the group.
Which group should you join so that every
person in all groups gets the same share of
chocolate.
Make sure you fully explain your answer.

6. WWW and EBI Statements
AO1 a - Fluency
I can add fractions
that have the same
denominator
AO2 a - Reasoning
I can draw conclusions
from mathematical
information
(by explaining which is the odd
one out for a set of fractions).
AO3 a – Problem Solving
I can use connections
between different parts of
mathematics
(by using properties of numbers in a
fraction problem).
AO1 b - Fluency
I can subtract
fractions that have
the same
denominator
including mixed
numbers.
AO2 b - Reasoning
I can communicate
information accurately
(by showing equivalent
fractions).
AO3 b – Problem Solving
I can translate a problem in
a non-mathematical context
into a process
(by using fractions in a problem about
sharing chocolate).

7. Pupil Formative Task AO1 b - Fluency
Model Example
It would help to draw a picture.
This is two whole ones and a
quarter. We now shade in over the
top of the diagram but leave three
quarters.
Now we just have to say what
there is.
___ whole ones & ___ quarters.
(Write it using fraction notation and simplify)
Scaffold Example
This is ______ whole ones
and ______ ______ .
We shade in over the top of the
diagram but leave five thirds.
Now there is:
Further Questions

8. Pupil Formative Task AO2 a - Reasoning
Scaffold Explanation
You need to write a fraction for each diagram and simplify it if you can.
Further Question
Which are the odd ones out for
these? Try to explain why.

12. Alex Cameron
Holloway School
Cameron.a52@Holloway.Islington.sch.uk
A proposal for assessment and feedback.
It’s a work in progress; I can come back in a year…
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