Research over the last fifty years has shown that, used well, assessment can be a powerful positive influence on learning, but we also know that assessment can be highly detrimental, causing some students to give up, and resulting in others focusing only on how to get the best score or grade possible, irrespective of what they have learned.
In this course of three online sessions, Dylan Wiliam will provide an overview of the relevant research on motivation, self-regulated learning, and assessment, and will describe a number of practical techniques that teachers can use to get their students to become owners of their own learning.