Educators should base their assessment of students' learning not on students' grasp of facts but on the ability to explain the ideas, trends, and concepts that those facts illustrate.

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Educators should base their assessment of students' learning not on students' grasp of facts but on the ability to explain the ideas, trends, and concepts that those facts illustrate.

Undoubtedly, explanation of idea is important, yet implementation of that idea is even more important. Although given notion addresses importance of presentation skills in education, it underestimates the significance of grasping skills; whereas, skills are must for transforming a student to a real professional.

For example, a student knows theoretical concepts of computer programming; her knowledge would only be valuable when she is able to apply this knowledge practically, in some form of valuable software application. If educators' focus would only be concentrated on explanation abil...

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