When I became a headteacher, in the pre-digital era, my inheritance included an elaborate system of paper tests. Administering these, marking them and converting the marks into age-adjusted values, took up what I judged to be more time than the results could justify. As a result I told the staff that we would stop the whole process in its tracks and spend the saved time and money on better lesson planning, better discipline and more library books. Brownie points, I have to say, rained gratifyingly upon me
“Ah but,” you say, “within those test results was information that could have informed and personalised your teaching.”
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