Dylan Wiliam

AERA's Classroom Assessment SIG has a podcast, one strand of which is a "Life and legacy" series in which those involved in classroom assessment sit down with Michael Holden and reflect on their careers. Here's my conversation: bit.ly/4cnKqK

How do we prepare students for a world we cannot imagine? This is the original text of a paper prepared for the 2011 Salzburg Seminar on Optimizing Talent: Closing Educational Gaps Worldwide, and published by Learning Sciences International in 2014.

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Cognitive Load Theory, Working Memory and What Teachers Can Control Jon Harper with Dylan Wiliam

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I always carry cash, and after what happened in Spain last month, I’m not going to stop any time soon…

There’s also the Marzano framework though as far as I know only the Danielson framework has been shown to be associated with student progress…

Our article 'The role of knowledge-rich curricula in promoting deep thinking and complex skill acquisition' is online and free. #EduSky
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I try to remember to leave cash tips when I leave a hotel room, and I keep a supply of $5 bills in my car to give away at stop lights…

AI influencers such as Ethan Mollick are already trumpeting the results of a poorly designed World Bank pilot study that employed AI with Nigerian students. This thread provides a fair and measured critique that's worth reading in full.

Again I must ask: Why so many shady studies?

Join the Bell Ringer Book Club Summer readers are cool

Join the Bell Ringer Book Club about our book 'Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking: The Knowledge Revival'.
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Making Room for Impact With teacher and leader workloads and burnout at an all-time high, it’s time for de-implementation: de-prioritizing and deleting the less effect...

In this top resource from March, John Hattie, @dylanwiliam.bsky.social, and Arran Hamilton show how de-implementation can cut ineffective initiatives and focus on what works.

Learn how to improve outcomes while restoring balance in this free, on-demand webinar: www.corwin.com/free-...

De vijf kernstrategieën van formatief handelen - Toetsrevolutie Op basis van het werk van Dylan Wiliam en Siobhan Leahy over formatief handelen, verscheen er een gids met praktische technieken

We zijn nog altijd erg geïnspireerd door het werk van @dylanwiliam.bsky.social ! Samen met @dmasluijsmans.bsky.social vertaalde ik een overzicht van zijn vijf kernstrategieën van formatief handelen.

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At researchED Scandinavia on March 15th, Kennet Fröjd hosted a panel discussion on #ArtificialIntelligence and education with Nidhi Sachdeva, Arnold Pears, Eva Hartell and me. You can listen to it on Spotify: lnkd.in/dg8iU6Ht and see it on YouTube: youtu.be/Iq9God1rjOs

NAEP Law uses the phrase "valid and reliable" 8 times and references "professional testing standards" 7 times. We can't measure educational progress with a bendable yardstick. Let's get the expertise we need.
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Second Time's the Charm? How Sustained Relationships from Repeat Student-Teacher Matches Build Academic and Behavioral Skills We examine the dynamic nature of student-teacher match quality by studying the effect of having a teacher for more than one year. Using data from Tennessee and panel methods, we find that having a rep...

Quantitative evidence of the impact of teacher-student relationships on achievement is thin on the ground, so this paper on the positive benefits of "looping" (teaching the same class for more than one year) by matthewakraft.bsky.social and colleagues is important: bit.ly/4bBiBvD

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Educational conference April 25-27, 2025: The Science of Learning The Science of How We Learn

Looking forward to learning a lot at the @learningandtheb conference in New York City next month: bit.ly/4ixCpSP

researchED Scandinavia 2025 | ResearchED Speakers SO FAR Agneta Gulz Alva Appelgren Andreas Jemstedt Andrew Watson Arnold Pears Attila Szabo Ben Newmark Beth Grenville Giddings Bruce Robertson Cecilia Caiman Cecilia Kozma Daniel Muis Daniel ...

Check out this amazing list of speakers at researchED Haninge in March: bit.ly/42F6hbk

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Research Training Institute on Cluster-Randomized Trials: STEPP Center - Northwestern University 2025 Summer Research Training Institute on Cluster-Randomized Trials.

15 years ago I did the IES cluster-randomized trials training program at Northwestern--they're still offering it in 2025, and I highly encourage early-career researchers to join! steppcenter.northwestern.edu/education-tr...

Roundtable on Biologically Primary and Secondary Knowledge, and on Cognitive Load Theory with John Sweller, David Geary, Dylan Wiliam and Kate Jones Fröjd’s toolbox · Episode

Last night I had the pleasure of participating in a roundtable discussion about biologically primary and secondary knowledge and cognitive load theory, with David Geary, katejonesteach.bsky.social, and John Sweller, organized by Kennet Fröjd. You can hear it here: spoti.fi/3Wt8kvc

The effects of charter school entry on the supply of teachers from university-based education programs Research on charter schools tends to focus on direct and immediate effects on student outcomes. However, there may be unintended indirect effects on, …

A difference-in-difference analysis exploiting differences in the timing of charter school entry finds that a 10% increase in charter market share reduced the supply of traditionally-prepared teachers by 1% each year: bit.ly/3E1GPme ($)

How can evidence-based education programmes be effectively scaled up in England? - BIT BIT independently evaluated the scaling of a formative assessment programme, which generated insights our clients used to reach many more schools

Great to see that the scale-up of Embedding Formative Assessment seems to be making a difference in schools in England. The Behavioural Insights Team evaluation found that close to 95% of teachers surveyed were using strategies emphasized in the programme: bit.ly/3WIdwM7. Full report: bit.ly/3CcVlqM

Full disclosure: I am on the project's Advisory Board in a voluntary capacity, and have no financial interest in Aristotal. I just think it's pretty amazing.

For a while now, I have been convinced that one of the most effective uses of AI in education would be to provide personal, private, coaching for teachers. I thought it would take five years, but it seems that it is here, or at least very close, already: bit.ly/3PADiO8.

Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking This OA book proposes a way forward to effectively teach knowledge and complex cognitive skills in school and achieve equitable opportunities.

It’s here! Our new open access book on curriculum written by Tim Surma, @paulkirschner.bsky.social, @dylanwiliam.bsky.social, @timsurma.bsky.social, Nuno Crato, Elizabeth Rata, John Hattie, Claudio Van Hees, Michiel Wils, Jasper Nijlunsing and me. Download it here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Going through my Downloads folder I found a study by Babu and Mendro from 2003's AERA conference. They found that low achievers benefitted greatly from having more effective teachers for three years, but were less likely to get them:

About 8 years ago, @siobhanleahy50 and I prepared a Quick Reference Guide for Embedding Formative Assessment. It's now out of print, so the copyright has reverted to us, and we are free to share it with anyone who wants it: bit.ly/EFAQRG (pdf).

More and more hotels in which I stay have refrigerators that charge you if you move an item. They usually offer an additional refrigerator if you want to keep something cold, so I have decided to ask for a refrigerator every time. If we all do this, they may change their stupid policies...

What Should Psychometricians Know about the History of Testing and Testing Policy? In 2023, a National Council on Measurement in Education Presidential Task Force developed a consensus framework for foundational competencies in educational measurement to guide graduate programs and...

"If we had an extra week, we could all read Morgan Polikoff’s (2021) Beyond Standards to try to understand the problems caused in our decentralized system by the lack of high-quality curricula and what states might do to evaluate and recommend curriculum materials."

I win. 65.