Originally Posted by
Baruch
As a teacher, I disagree with you. You only have to look at the reactions of children (which are ingrained in all of us, as we were all children once). Of course, assessment is necessary in schools. Tell the children they're having a test, and they get uptight about it, worry about it and start (in some cases) to worry about failing it. Tell them they're being assessed and they're much more relaxed about it, even though they can see it's pretty much the same tasks they're being asked to do in either case.
It's all in the terminology: "test" implies pass or fail, whereas "assessment" implies finding out where you are in order to move you on, ability-wise.
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