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Wiliam, Dylan – Psychology of Education Review, 2019
In this "Open Dialogue: Peer Response," the author notes that in the initial paper, "Contributions of Educational Psychology to Understanding Student Learning: What Has Been Discovered - What More Could Be Done?" Entwistle lays out a useful summary of the way that psychology has contributed to an understanding of student…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Learning Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Theories
Wiliam, Dylan – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2017
In this article, Dylan William states that the central claim in Baird, et al.'s piece is that if theories of assessment take into account theories of learning, assessments will somehow be more valid, and some of the more egregious effects of assessment on learning will be ameliorated. William responds to this claim by arguing that it seems…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Learning Theories, Test Theory, International Assessment
Wiliam, Dylan – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2013
In "How Is Testing Supposed to Improve Schooling?" Edward Haertel has proposed a framework for thinking about the mechanisms by which testing might improve the various educational processes undertaken in schools. The framework seems to the author to be quite general (he uses the word "general" here in its mathematical sense of including all cases)…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Educational Improvement, Test Results, Test Use
Wiliam, Dylan – Educational Researcher, 2008
In this article, three theoretical perspectives are used to extend Bulterman-Bos's (2008) argument regarding a clinical approach to education research. First, three intellectual virtues identified by Aristotle--"episteme," "techne," and "phronesis"--are related to the requirements of the "pure" education researcher, the skilled practitioner, and…
Descriptors: Evidence, Classification, Educational Philosophy, Theories
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Lester, Frank K., Jr.; Wiliam, Dylan – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2000
Researchers are being exhorted to gather and analyze data for evaluating the efficacy of various instructional approaches and curricula in mathematics education. Addresses one of the fundamental notions in mathematics education research, the concept of evidence. (Contains 12 references.) (ASK)
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Education, Research Problems
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Marshall, Bethan – English in Education, 2002
Offers an interview between Bethan Marshall, a Lecturer in Education at King's College, London, and Dylan Wiliam, a Professor of Assessment in the Department of Education at King's College. Notes that he has been involved in work on assessment, both in research and government policy, for many years. Explores the findings of his research and its…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, English Instruction, Formative Evaluation, Higher Education
Briggs, Derek C. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2007
In "International approaches to Science Assessment" Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam describe eight major elements of assessment systems and contrast some of the differences among these elements across seven countries. Of particular interest to the author is an issue that cuts across many of these elements, namely, what gets assessed as part of these…
Descriptors: United States History, Science Tests, Evaluation, Current Events
Bulterman-Bos, Jacquelien A. – Educational Researcher, 2008
This article presents the author's response to comments on her article, "Will a Clinical Approach Make Education Research More Relevant for Practice?", which focused on the question of whether a clinical research practice might make education research more relevant for practice. The characteristics of a clinical approach are: (1) an overlap in the…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Educational Research, Theory Practice Relationship, Educational Researchers