Jono, Adam, Nikki

'Assessment is most effective when students are not given grades. Do you agree?'

To a certain extent I agree; the most important and effective part of assessment is the actual feedback, not the grade given. However the grade is useful for differentiating and monitoring progress across the year - so perhaps more useful for the teacher than the student: an idea here would be to actually grade the student but not publish the grade to them so you can use it to monitor.

''In terms of monitoring, however, grades are a very unsophisticated system as they only give a very broad brush idea of how a student is performing; individual marks are are more specific and generally more useful for tracking purposes. Grades are more useful for motivation.''