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Reduce the need for testing, we make assessment for learning low stakes and we reduce the need for future pre assess by tracking how new learning is embedding, that is we do assessment of learning, that is assessment of retrieval practice. During the pre assess process we encourage the teacher to explain to the learner its purpose is to find out what the learner knows and what the teacher should teach next, not to judge the learner.
We want learners to get over 80% of their timely practice retrieval practice questions correct - so feedback is more likely to be successful - sometimes we need to reduce the number of layers which are regularly requiring feedback.
However we encourage teachers to discourage learners from giving themselves a score on their retrieval practice assignments.
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which reduce the working memory load of the lesson,
which teach on firm learning foundations,
help the learner to embed the learning of the lesson into long term memory.
Here is a link to some research on this, which the reader may refer to if they are interested.
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