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I love this article Elaine. If only I had got feedback like that when I was at school!!

Quality. A lot of the (official) emphasis on formative assessment in the classroom (or AfL - assessment for learning, they call it in school-land) is down to this guy, Dylan Wiliam, from when he was an adviser to the government: http://www.journeytoexcellence.org.uk/videos/expertspeakers/formativeassessmentdylanwiliam.asp There was also a TV series - 'The Classroom Experiment' - tracing his tinkering with the teaching practices of a regular secondary: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00txzwp Essential watching, it was! There are still some clips on there...