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To forms of instruction that i was familiar with in the 1950s — of teacher talking, passing on information, demanding that these students immediately absorb it and then immediately produce results in forms of pretests before the real test, and all this is a form of, as ive said before, a form of summative testing. im totally in favour of children being assessed but there are other ways of doing it, what we call formative assessment, where what we do is engage with the students in order to find...

That i was familiar with in the 19505 of teacher talking, passing on information, demanding that these students immediately absorb it and then immediately produce results in forms of pretests before the real test, and all this is a form of, as ive said before, a form of summative testing. im totally in favour of children being assessed but there are other ways of doing it, what we call formative assessment, where what we do is engage with the students in order to find out what they know, what th...

Forms of instruction that i was familiar with in the 1950s of teacher talking and passing on information, demanding that the students immediately absorb it and immediately produce results and immediately produce results and forms of pretence before the real tests and all of this is a form of summative testing. i am totally in favour of children being assessed but there are other ways of doing it. formative assessment where what we do is engage with students in order to find out what they know an...