BM: There is more clarity of focus, and there are a lot of people around who have
a very deep domain of knowledge, and that gives us the ability to skip over things we might have tried a few years ago.
Where progress is understood differently — to mean «increasing «proficiency» reflected in more extensive knowledge,
deeper understandings and higher - level skills within a
domain of learning» (Masters, 2017)-- an emphasis only on reporting achievement on summative assessments would give
very little sense of a child's progress from where they began.