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Testing, testing... why one test can't do everything

May 17, 2016 | Category: assessment
The thing which most seems to rile people about testing is the fact that it puts children under stress. A certain amount of stress is probably a good thing - there's nothing as motivating as a looming...
#Dylan Wiliam #testing #Martin Robinson #Tim Oates

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...
#AfL #Robert Bjork #Daisy Christodoulou #retrieval #testing

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