Children should work on the level appropriate to present attainment and should move as quickly as their abilities and desires allow them to. Successful completion of challenging experiences promotes greater confidence an motivation to learn than fear of failure. Learning experiences based on the child's expressed interests will motivate the child to continue and complete a task successfully much more frequently than teacher contrived techniques. D. Evaluation and Reporting 30. Children are evaluated in terms of their past achievements and their own potential, not by comparison to group norms.
Expectation differ for differnt children.
Evaluation must be continuous and comprehensive to fulfill its diagnostic purpose. A child strives mainly to improve his or her performance and develop potential rather than to compete with others. Teachers accept and respond to the fact that growth patterns will be irregular and will occur in different areas at different times. Individual pupil progress forms are used to record the learning tasks completed, deficiencies that need new assignments to permit mastery, and all other data that will show the child's progress in relation to past achievements and potential or that will help the teacher in suggesting possible future learning experiences for the individual. Anderson, R.H., and B.N. Pavan.