Demonstrating progress in Economics and Business: Making the Starter the Plenary

Demonstrating progress in lessons is of great importance to teachers, students and to anyone observing and assessing lessons (such as Ofsted Inspectors). In this article
I set out to argue that one of the best ways to demonstrate progress is to use the same
knowledge ‘test’ at both the start and the end of the lesson. I present a bit of theory to explain why this might be a good idea
and give an example of how it might work, even at the start of a topic that students have had no previous experience of.

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