'All forms of assessments can enhance your teaching and children's learning.' Critically discuss.

Assessment concerns the gathering of information. This can range from a teacher asking 'How are you this morning?' to administering a SAT at the end of a key stage. Although at opposite ends of the assessment spectrum, both provide information about a child, both are done for different reasons and both will be used in different ways. Assessment may be criterion referenced (where success is measured against the task itself) or norm referenced ('locating …showed first 75 words of 2639 total…

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