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At my school we have a set text book for each grade and an assessment book to go with it. A teacher recently tried to use the same questions from the grade 3 assessment book with grade 4 class (The same questions grade 4 would have been tested on the previous year) When I asked why the teacher becam...

Can anyone inform me or direct me to a source about the use of practice tests? I am particularly interested when a practice test is given before the final test but contains exactly the same format with a few changes in wording. Is this OK teaching practice or just loading ths bases, so to speak? My ...