Can teachers rehearse with their students before the assessment?
Teachers should make sure students have done some work on presentation and interaction skills as part of the teaching programme. They could audio or video-record the students’ early attempts and give them some feedback and suggestions on how to improve. However, they should not rehearse the actual assessment task with the students. For instance, if a teacher asks his/her students to compare and contrast two characters from Harry Potter as a pre-assessment activity and then gives them feedback and suggestions for improvement, he/she should not allow the students to do the same task and text (i.e. comparing the same two characters from Harry Potter) for the actual SBA. The teacher could instead ask them to compare two other characters.
