Read ahead: Dylan Wiliam on assessment

As you know, Dylan Wiliam is coming to the East campus next week.

We have some of his books in the libraries (click here for a list), but as there aren't enough copies for everyone to read at once, why not read some of his key articles?

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Black, Paul et al. “Working Inside the Black Box: Assessment for Learning in the Classroom.” Phi Delta Kappan 86 (2004): 8. Print.

Black, Paul, and Dylan Wiliam. “A pleasant surprise.” Phi Delta Kappan 92 (2010): 47+. Print.

---. “Inside the black box: raising standards through classroom assessment.” Phi Delta Kappan 80 (1998): 139+. Print.

---. “Inside the black box: raising standards through classroom assessment: formative assessment is an essential component of classroom work and can raise student achievement.” Phi Delta Kappan 92.1 (2010): 81+. Print.

Clymer, Jacqueline B., and Dylan Wiliam. “Improving the way we grade science.” Educational Leadership 64 (2006): 36+. Print.

Wiliam, Dylan. “Changing classroom practice.” Educational Leadership 65 (2007): 36+. Print.

---. “Feedback: part of a system.” Educational Leadership 70 (2012): 30–34. Print.

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You can read all the Phi Delta Kappan articles online or have them emailed to yourself using our new InfoTrac subscription.  It's an online database of 250 magazines which we are trialling on both campuses.  If it doesn't contain a magazine you're interested in, let me know.  We'll definitely be adjusting the titles available.

Click here to go to our new InfoTrac Magazines Online & access these articles by Dylan Wiliam 

If you are on campus, the link should put you directly into InfoTrac.

If it doesn't, you'll have to enter a password. Click here to open a Google Doc -- http://bit.ly/accessuwc -- that gives them all to you (or, rather, to anyone with a @gapps.uwcsea.edu.sg account).

Click here for a PDF that shows you step-by-step screenshots for articles in Phi Delta Kappan (as that is full-text complete in Infotrac).  It's a Google Doc accessible by anyone with a @gapps.uwcsea.edu.sg account - as I show you the password to Infotrac.

In the case of you finding an article for which Infotrac doesn't have the full-text, then we have other avenues.  E.g., for ASCD's Educational Leadership, you need to go to the website and know our institutional login.  Click here for the Google Doc where we are collecting such logins/passwords.  It is shared only with @gapps.uwcsea.edu.sg in the "allteachingstaff" list for Dover & East.

If you want to search ASCD's Educational Leadership for Dylan Wiliam articles, click here and login.

Films, movies, DVDs, iTunes on iPads, etc.

The library is slowly building up its collection of films and documentaries to support the curriculum -- and the boarding house "home collection".

Click here for a list of all films, DVDs, and iTunes downloads on the library iPads in the Secondary Library.

Note that when you look at a particular title, you need to check its "Location".  Some are physical DVDs in the library or in particular departments, while others are via iTunes - so you need to use one of the library iPads to view it.

Click here for a list of all the iTunes films we have on the iPads.  Right now we are allowing teachers to check iPads out of the library for their own viewing/use, but students are expected to use them only in the library under your supervision.

To book the 12 iPads, create a Google Calendar event and invite libraryeast@gapps.uwcsea.edu.sg -- and specify iPads in the event description.  Once you do that, we will accept your invitation -- and it will show up on our Events page of eastlib.uwcsea.edu.sg, e.g.,

IMPORTANT NOTE:  Not all the films will fit one iPad, so you should tell us in the event booking which films you want loaded.  This may take a bit of time - so please book at least one day in advance.

And don't hesitate to request a particular film....

Bonus point:  Our iPads are individually named, to make it easy to tell them apart.  Do you know why we chose these famous people for our devices?