By foregrounding the NAPLAN score scale and proficiency bands, NAPLAN would model and promote a growth mindset in assessment, an approach that follows naturally from recognition that learning
occurs on a continuum and that a single year level test is inappropriate for most students.
Computer adaptive testing recognises that learning
occurs on a continuum and so provides better information about where individuals are in their learning and for setting challenging personalised targets for further growth.
Not exact matches
It
occurred to me that the distinctions between Catholics at Quakers that seem so pronounced
on the outside are but accidental fences in the endless
continuum of God's grace.
Dependency theorists have illustrated the complex ways in which accumulation (development and growth) and poverty (underdevelopment and decline)
occur in tandem and systematically — one
on each side of a
continuum.
The human body is a
continuum and when yoga poses have a focus
on stretching the «parts» at the expense of the spine and SI joint, this is where injuries
occur.
This framework recognises that special educational needs
occur along a
continuum, ranging from mild to severe, and from transient to long term, and that students require different levels of support depending
on their identified educational needs.
The level of involvement may
occur along a
continuum from occasional participation in school programs to parents and the school working in partnership
on issues impacting
on the child's learning, health and wellbeing.