They found primary school teachers were starting to get grips with the process of assessing pupils and many were more accurate than in the curriculum's first year.

- It can allow teachers to assess pupils in more complex and sophisticated ways.

The ONLY way to assess pupils is a properly moderated teacher assessment using senior teachers with years of experience.

If we can't trust school teachers to assess pupils why should we trust University Lecturers?

Stop making Year 6 tests bear the triple burden of assessing pupils, evaluating schools and monitoring national performance.

Also the day-to-day work of schools and the task of assessing pupils assumed a higher importance than the development of new curriculum.

More often, however, we wish to assess teachers' and pupils' attitudes and understanding.

You teachers realize well enough what is happening, but teachers have to play the competition game, assessing pupils, pushing them on.

Giving teachers more freedom to assess pupils doesn't mean losing accountability, says Estelle Morris.

The national curriculum involves assessing pupils at ages 7, 11, 14 and 16.