The eighth #blogsync provided an opportunity for teachers of all walks to expand on their best marking practice. While it may maintain its place at the core of teaching practice, marking is certainly not what it used to be, herein you can read how some very impressive practitioners achieve: Marking with Impact?

To follow is the archive of the blogs and twitter links to their writers. A full description of the mechanics behind #blogsync and the form you can use to sign up can be found here

  1. @Cherryl-kd: To Mark or Not to Mark
  2. Sue Cowley: “The Editors” – there are many kinds of edit.
  3. Chris Chivers: Marking: Continuing the Dialogue
  4. Sarah Findlater: Marking for the Masses and Feedback for the Future
  5. Shaun Allison: Marking: Minimum Effort for Maximum Pleasure
  6. James Gurung: Using end-of-term tests to move learning forward
  7. @just_maths: Maths Plasters
  8. Tom Sherrington: Formative use of Summative Tests
  9. Andy Lewis: Collaborative Marking with Impact
  10. Paul Raymond Collins: A festival of acronyms: WWW, EBI and INT
  11. David Didau: Marking is an act of love
  12. Mary Myatt: Should I be marking every piece of work?
  13. Chris Curtis: This Marking is Killing Me
  14. Michael Tidd: Effective marking: a primary slant
  15. Stretch potential: Marking: Encouraging and evidencing dialogue
  16. Tom Riley: Improving feedback in a 1:1 environment
  17. Alex Quigley: Make your ‘marking policy’ a ‘feedback policy’, and Dirty Work
  18. @redorgreenpen: Does DIRT work in maths?
  19. Joe Kirby: What if you marked every book, every lesson?
  20. Helen Lochead: Manageable and meaningful marking
  21. Chris Waugh: Give the feedback before the race is run
  22. David Fawcett: Understanding why feedback doesn’t stick and Using methods to make feedback stick
  23. Laura McInerny: The Quick, The Weird, and The Thorough: How I Mark Student Work