"All assessment should be formative, even when it's summative" - so went the wisdom of Obsessed with Assessment host, Sam Denno. His guest in this episode, James Beadle, is here to unpick all of that and add some additional nuance. James considers the purposes of formative and summative assessment respectively, what they set out to achieve, and how we can use intelligent questioning to ensure that we are optimising the functionality of both forms.

Sam Denno is the National Assessment Lead at Twinkl Educational Publishing. James Beadle is a Senior Professional Development Manager at The Assessment Network, an arm of Cambridge University Press & Assessment.

Further reading: https://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/blogs/what-and-why-do-we-assess-in-the-classroom/

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