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Testing & assessment - have we been doing the right things for the wrong reasons?

Jun 16, 2013 | Category: assessment
A curious peculiarity of our memory is that things are impressed better by active than by passive repetition. I mean that in learning (by heart, for example), when we almost know the piece, it pays be...
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