Catherine Montgomery Boeken

Focusing on Assessment for Learning (AfL) in Higher Education, this practical guide offers educators effective strategies to enhance student learning and engagement. It emphasizes the importance of formative assessment and provides tools for implementing AfL principles in various teaching contexts. The book addresses challenges educators may face and presents solutions to foster a supportive learning environment, ultimately aiming to improve educational outcomes and promote a culture of continuous feedback and improvement.

Having moved to London from Durham with his mum, Lenny finds his new environment somewhat scary and daunting. Matters are seemingly made worse when he spots the rather fierce-looking elderly neighbour, Mrs Portman, glaring at him from behind her dirty windows. Telling his mum, she is inspired to start a cleaning company and Lenny is persuaded to help his mum sort out the rubbish in Mrs Portman's pantry. There, the discovery of an old recipe book leads to Mrs Portman teaching Lenny how to make apple crumble, which he subsequently shares with his class at school the next day. The sequence of events helps Lenny to realise that things are not always as scary as they may at first seem.

When Worsooz meets her estranged father Nick, her mother Alberta is immersed in a secret relationship with girlfriend Anne and building their plan to rid the world of domestic violence. Isolated and disgusted by her mothers relationship, Worsooz is lured into criminality by her father Nick and immerses herself into a secret world where only men can belong. Set in the late 1980s Worsooz is a semi-autobiographical story of how far one girl will go for the love of her father.