Making marking efficient and meaningful

Offer quality feedback in half the time with these hand-picked marking grids, spreadsheets and self-assessment templates

Tes Resources Team

Teacher Marking Tools at secondary to make marking efficient and meaningful

Top tips, tools and templates to help you and your students get the most out of time spent marking

Getting the right balance between time spent marking and offering quality feedback can be tricky. Luckily, we've got you covered. Check out these helpful resources and help your students get on top of their progress.

Speed up marking

Make the most out of technology by using an automated spreadsheet to calculate grades.

Marking grids and stickers

Use one of the grids or some of the stickers below as a guide to give marks and feedback, while allowing students to reflect on your comments.

Marking and Feedback grid
Victoria1987

Marking and Feedback grid

FREE
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A simple grid to provide feedback to students on a piece of work or work from several lessons. I use two highlighters - one for successes and another for next steps. How to use Change the topic title. Work out the success criteria for the work and fill in the successes section. Use the su...
Marking Stickers (9-1) With Effort
Stephen Wilson

Marking Stickers (9-1) With Effort

FREE
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Marking stickers with effort gauge, a level 9-1 thermometer and space for www, ebi and pupil feedback. Set up for 2 by 4 sticker sheets, but just as good on paper with a glue stick to hand.
Marking grid
l_birkinshaw

Marking grid

FREE
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This is a Marking Grid which can be either be filled in electronically or printed off and filled in to give student feedback. It can then either be stuck in by the teacher or given to the pupils to stick in their books themselves! It includes the following sections: What Went Well, Even Better If,...
Marking Grid for excercise books
Carole Yearwood

Marking Grid for excercise books

FREE
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This is a very simple marking grid that you can photocopy and cut out. It is slightly labour intense to start with, as you need to print and then cut out. However once completed, it can be glued at the end of a piece of work when giving feedback. It uses the two ticks and star approach, however yo...

Encourage self assessment

Why not motivate pupils to be independent learners, by giving them the chance to self-reflect with this range of structured response sheets?

DIRT Worksheet (A3 Double-Sided)
godwin86

DIRT Worksheet (A3 Double-Sided)

£3.99
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Need an instant DIRT worksheet/session? This is for any GCSE (or exam) subject. This download includes a generic (multi-subject) A3 double-sided DIRT worksheet and PowerPoint instructional slides. DIRT stands for 'Dedicated Improvement Reflection Time' and the worksheet features a number of...
Student Self Assessment Mat
thisisgeography

Student Self Assessment Mat

FREE
(15)
Guided self assessment mat for students. Encourages students to actively improve their work. Great as an extension task or to get students to check their work prior to marking. For more resources visit [**This is Geography**](http://thisisgeography.co.uk). Full SoW for all new GCSE specifications -...
Thinking Routines for Assessment & Learning 1
julieaforman

Thinking Routines for Assessment & Learning 1

£2.50
(1)
This is an easy to use teacher guide for using thinking routines to help students and adults identify, analyse, collaborate, question and extend their thinking skills. This guide explains what thinking routines are and ways they can be used in a variety of different learning contexts and subject are...
Self-Assessment Poster
Molly Lyons

Self-Assessment Poster

FREE
(2)
To go alongside the traffic light cards, this is a poster to explain what each card means. If you used this resource I'd love to see so tag me on Instagram @misslyonsprimary
Self Assessment Fans
MissFeeney20

Self Assessment Fans

FREE
(1)
Traffic light system self assessment fans. Individual assessment strategy to show how children feel about a task. This resource is free however if you find it useful and would like to purchase a book or resource for my class you can do so via the link in my Instagram bio. If you decide to share th...