What feedback is and isn’t
The research is clear: good feedback is essential to learning at high levels. Alas, too few people understand what feedback …
Author Archives: grantwiggins
Still alive and well; just swamped
A few loyal readers wrote worried emails: Grant, are you OK??? Yes, I’m just fine. Alas, I have been swamped …
What if…? Part 1: Staffing
What if we hired and placed teachers completely differently? I have been thinking about this issue for a long time. …
Reliability
The blog gods are very fickle. I had almost put the finishing touches on Validity Part 3 – in which …
Validity, part 2
In the first post in this series, I defined what validity is and why it is more tricky to determine …
Testing and thinking
We interrupt this general look at test validity to comment on very important educational research that was just made public …
Validity, part 1 (revised)
[ Note: I have made a number of line edits for clarity since this was first posted. Please refer to …
Lectures, part 3
It can be said flatly that the mere act of listening to wise statements and sound advice does little for …
Lectures, part 2
As I mentioned in Part 1, numerous attempts to improve the lecture have been proposed and implemented over the past …
The lecture
I recently wrote that Understanding by Design is agnostic about any specific method or pedagogy. The bottom-line question has to …
