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Thinking Deeply about Primary Education

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The Importance of Formalized Testing in Year One

The biggest pitfall might be on a strategic level when it, the, the purpose gets lost and it becomes a surface level sort of shell. I couldn't really struggle to think of any circumstance in which you've got all 30 kids quietly getting on with something that will provide you with information at five or six years old. Don't necessarily think there's much use for the teacher anyway. So sudden may go, we want to measure progress. With that, some SLT like data. Do you kind of provide, you know, formalized assessments for that age group? You can get a norm reference test, which means you can kind of judge that. Oh, or against a sort of

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