The researchED Guide to Assessment: An evidence-informed guide for teachers

A teacher's job is to create an environment where our students' engagement in learning proceeds towards an intended direction. In order for this to occur, we must form a bridge between the teaching of material in the classroom and how the learning of that information is being processed and manipulated by our students. The only way we can do this effectively is through the process of assessment. Recent theoretical history on how to effectively establish and implement assessment strategies into policy has caused much confusion; it is high time to consider how assessment, marking and feedback have changed over the years so that conversations about how best to move forward can begin. In this researchED Guide to Assessment, Sarah Donarski brings together chapters by Dylan Wiliam, Tom Sherrington, Alison Peacock and many others to consider the debates, critique the strategies and find solutions that not only better the progress of pupils but also assist the wellbeing and manageability of workload for staff.

Tom Bennett is the founder of researchED, a grass-roots organisation that aims to raise research literacy in education and campaigns for better evidence awareness worldwide. It now holds events globally, attracting thousands of followers and generating discussion and change in schools throughout the world. In 2015, Tom became the UK government's school behaviour tsar, advising on behaviour policy as well as chairing the Mental Health in Schools panel. He has written five books about teacher training and in 2015 was longlisted as one of the world's top teachers in the Varkey Foundation's Global Teacher Prize. In the same year he was listed as one of The Huffington Post's top 10 global teacher bloggers. Tom is the director of Tom Bennett Training, which works exclusively with the most disadvantaged students and schools in England, helping them to turn around, and he is a teacher-fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. His online resources have been viewed more than 1,200,000 times. Tom was appointed OBE in the 2022 New Year Honours for his significant contribution to education.