Andy Chandler-Grevatt
Andy is an experienced secondary school science teacher and advanced skills teacher. He has a doctorate in assessment in science education and is a teaching fellow in science education at the University of Sussex, where he trains science teachers. He is known for Level Ladders and is now an assessment editor at Oxford University Press (OUP) for Activate.
Andy is interested in making formative assessment meaningful in the classroom and explores ways to implement it in the classroom. He has researched assessment and trained teachers in Kazakhstan, China and Canada. Andy also is an active member of the Association for Science Education, being chair for the Surrey and Sussex Region and is on the national 11–19 committee.
Andy blogs and has a profile at OUP.
IdeasWe're all going on a summer holiday
No more working for six weeks or so, no more worries for me or you
- Ideas
Make the most of tests
Three ways to provide students with test feedback and increase their motivation
- Ideas
How to make effective interventions
Try a pinchpoint approach to diagnose and address the reasons for learners’ mistakes in school science
- Feature
Losing our technicians: the crisis facing schools
Where does the technician staffing crisis come from and what can be done about it?
- Review
The feedback loop
Circular assessment: using formative assessment data for science teaching and learning
- Feature
Challenging concepts in chemistry
Andy Chandler-Grevatt introduces threshold concept mastery tasks for A-level
- Review
Science formative assessment (volume 2)
50 more strategies for linking assessment, instruction and learning
