Assessment is the mirror the facilitator holds up to learning. A teacher who facilitates student-led discussion and then tests students on recall of facts has sent a contradictory message about what learning looks like.
The assessment always wins — students are rational, and they study for the test, not the discussion. Facilitation-aligned assessment doesn't abandon rigour; it measures the right things.
This cluster covers three levels of assessment change: how to run formative assessment that captures thinking rather than performance, how to teach students to assess each other in ways that develop their judgement rather than just generating peer marks, and how to construct rubrics and tasks that measure reasoning quality.
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