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Child Study and Classroom Based Observation
Should We Make Time To Watch and Listen?

Introduction

The traditional place for assessment within teaching is at the end of a topic or significant time period when the teacher wishes to know how much information students have retained. This form of assessment often takes the form of a written test that is designed to give students a grade or level.

Many researchers, however, believe that teaching and learning is a cyclical process that begins and ends with assessment:

Assessment is a tool that begins and ends successful teaching. At the beginning it establishes what is currently known and at the end it establishes what has been learnt as the result of the planned curriculum.
(Fisher, 1998, 20)

The implication of this is that assessment should be a regular feature of teaching so that practitioners can use the results in their planning:

Assessment occurs on a day-to day basis and involves practitioners modifying and......

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