How can classroom assessment be made more useful to teachers and pupils?
When transmission teachers listened to pupils, the researchers suggest, they were listening for how well the pupils’ explanations matched their own rather than engaging in a dialogue. Similarly, such teachers appeared to use pupil performance marks more to check that what had been taught had been learned rather than that the children understood. Connectionist teachers, on the other hand, used continuous and varied means of assessment to build up detailed profiles at both class and individual student level, as the following comments illustrate: “So it’s all sort of assessment and focus teaching all the time. I assess every day – what activities have gone on and where each group goes next.” “Every piece of work I do, I just keep a sheet like that…and I write my own notes on there if a child has a specific problem. My planning, my search to find the most suitable method of teaching a child… And that just comes from my own experience and my observations and my constant assessment that I us
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