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How well is pupils’ progress assessed and monitored?
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Posted: 28 Aug, 2006
by: Overy M.
Updated: 28 Aug, 2006
by: Overy M.
 

Summative testing and recording of test data is good. There is a need to make more effective use of summative tests in setting individual targets. More emphasis is now being placed formative testing and strategies have been introduced to use formative assessment more often, rather than place too much emphasis on end of unit tests.
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