ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the letter written by the missed writer and educationalist Ted Wragg, who viewed all the insane, and innovations in education, a fair critic and an honest judge of sense versus nonsense. It arose when Ofsted criticised the assessment procedures for children in the Foundation Stage in England. Assessment is a loaded word and has meanings relating to evaluating different things. It is really important to remember that it is not the same as testing or examining. People talk about assessing a child's progress in school as well as a school's position up a league table. Testing children with goals and targets, scores and ratings means that the quality of the education may suffer as practitioners. The chapter deals how can evaluate the learning and development of the children in their care. Science is essentially evidence-based and nowadays one talks of medicine, conclusions about global warming being evidence-based.
