Ruth Sutton

Independent Consultant

Ruth has worked in the UK, Canada, NZ and many other jurisdictions on Assessment, Feedback and Teaching for Learning since 1982, and had a long-term consultancy in several UK LAs, including Caerphilly and the Western Isles. Her most recent partnerships have been with Winnipeg SD and the Manitoba Rural Learning Consortium.

  REASONS I’M A MEMBER OF THE TEAM:

I have been working at school, district and national level in UK on assessment policy and practice continuously since 1982, which provides a rare overview of these developments, and three decades of practical experience.

  CURRENT FOCUS:

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Two Steps Forward, One Step Back – Promoting Assessment to Support Learning

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Student transition from elementary through to senior high schooling in their middle years presents interesting challenges for teachers, students and school systems. This coincides with a focus on cross-curricular learning skills. My current focus is on developing students’ digital learning portfolios to help bridge the middle-years’ gaps and to encourage students’ self-efficacy and ‘growth mindset’.

  TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT MY WORK:

Publications include:
Assessment for Learning (UK, 1995)
Creating Independent Student Learners (Winnipeg, 2006)
Successful Student transition (Winnipeg, 2012)
Assessment for Learning by Ruth Sutton

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