The Collective Conversation

A reflection on assessment pressure, wellbeing, and why contemporary learning matters more than ever This week, I held my thirteen-year-old son while he sobbed under the weight of assessment season. Seven assessments due in one week, several only just behind him, and more expectations still to come. He is capable. He gets As and Bs. He cares. That is exactly why it broke him. As I hugged him through the tears, one thought kept repeating in my mind: this is not what the end of

Two exam headlines have dominated Australian education news in recent weeks. In Queensland, Ancient History  students discovered they’d spent the year studying the wrong topic. In Victoria, English  students were blindsided by a random, unattributed quote that left even their teachers confused. For the students involved, these weren’t just slip-ups. They were moments that revealed something most of us already know - that the system we’ve built to measure learning is no longer

Grades, those neat little letters, are supposed to reflect learning. But do they really?

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