Teaching, Learning and Assessment

Earlier this summer I gave a talk with the above title to the Mathematics in Education and Industry (MEI) conference. It was not a seriously researched talk, more a before dinner talk, but it did raise some serious issues. I was largely reflecting on my experience as a teacher, as a learner and as an examiner and on my observations on other teachers, learners and examiners and musing on the interaction between the three aspects - indeed the full title of the talk was Teaching, Learning and Assessment: Mutually Exclusive Ideologies….