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116,419 - Total Helpful Votes: 16 of 31
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
This book is firmly in the broad category of education books which mainly just contain opinions you probably aren't interested in, hidden behind a title that makes the book sound like it might be of some practical use.
Once you get started you discover that the author does not have a clear idea of what it means to raise achievement, it certainly doesn't appear to mean getting better exam results. Instead she talks about social justice, the unfairness of setting, how teachers can't be trusted to assess students (particularly in bottom sets) and how unfair everything is. Once you get over this disappointment there's little left to do but get irritated at an author who: thinks… Read more
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3 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
In the past I've always quite liked books about formative assessment. Usually they make it clear that it is the teachers' job to find out what their students don't know and teach it to them. Unfortunately this book is about "embedding" assessment for learning - apparently code for burying it and forgetting about it in order to return to the discredited ideas of thirty years ago. Once more we return to the idea that mathematics is to be understood, investigated, discovered and, most of all, communicated. The idea that mathematics is to be taught and done once more takes second place to group work and discussion. The "discourse of mathematics" is set to drive out the doing of mathematics… Read more
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1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Yes, you did read that right a man can give birth to a hippo. Or at least he probably can if you choose to believe the claim that starts one of the chapters in this book: "almost anything we can conceive is now possible". While that may be a particularly ridiculous statement it is indicative of the tone of this book. Relentlessly optimistic in their outlook, the authors tour every trendy idea in education, teaching and learning, ready to see "the world's best" in everything. So enthusiastic are they that every other page is given over to a large type summary of the key point(s) of the surrounding pages. To begin with the book is almost overwhelming in its breadth, but before too long it… Read more
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