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Against The Grade: In Search Of Continuity In Schooling And Learning, Geoff N. Masters
Against The Grade: In Search Of Continuity In Schooling And Learning, Geoff N. Masters
Monitoring Learning
Learning is enhanced when learning opportunities are matched to individuals' current levels of knowledge, skill and understanding, so classroom activities are likely to be most effective in raising achievement levels if they are differentiated, in other words, if teachers recognise the wide variation in children's levels of progress; if they identify individuals' interests and current levels or attainment; and if they expect different kinds of learning from different students. Uniformly high expectations and a common curriculum for all may be less effective, and ultimately more inequitable, than providing differentiated learning and differentiate expectations of individual progress towards the same high …