Assessing pupils' progress
Pupil progress can be assessed in a number of ways:
Monitoring of day-to-day activities
Teachers do this as an integral part of effective teaching. It
pinpoints strengths and weaknesses and allows the next stage of
learning to be identified. This will involve providing challenging
and attainable targets and, through this, improving motivation.
Meaningful learning will be encouraged when there is constant
monitoring of progress.
Regular appraisal of progress
In the case of Latin it is inevitable that pupils' ability to
retain vocabulary or grammatical features will suffer if they
are not frequently involved with the language and if their knowledge
is not regularly reinforced. Assessment should not be time consuming
or burdensome. A regular vocabulary check, whether oral or written,
may take only a few minutes; however, it will be valuable to pupils
in helping them to retain information. It will also be valuable
to teachers in helping them to identify particular areas in need
of development. Similarly, making a regular oral or written check
on points of grammar or information about the Roman World helps
to reinforce new material or revise previous information.
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