Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Promoting Assessment as Learning
Ruth Dann · 2002
72/100
👍 Worth It
Ruth Dann makes a genuinely useful argument — that assessment should be woven into learning rather than separated from it — and does so with enough practical classroom grounding to be useful for working primary teachers, not just theorists. It is a Routledge academic text from 2002 with UK policy references that are now dated, so the audience is specific: UK-oriented educators and students, or anyone studying formative assessment history; outside that circle the value drops considerably.
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