Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Continuous assessment

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The result was keep. -- Patar knight - ^chat/_{contributions} 02:27, 28 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Continuous assessment

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Totally unreferenced article. Tagged for WP:V (August 2016). Appears to be a made-up concept. No sources support "Continuous assessment" that is an education policy in any nation as far as I am able to discern. Fails WP:N and WP:GNG. Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought, is not a place for expressing personal views or original ideas WP:Notforum and WP:Nottextbook. Steve Quinn (talk) 02:38, 4 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:39, 4 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete, more for being unsourced and not having anything show up when I try a couple of searches. I disagree that it's made-up, as it was certainly the term used for the way assessment was handled when I was at school in Queensland in the earlier years of the century, so on that level I'd expect there'd be something sourceable, but I'm apparently not the one to find it. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 06:16, 4 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Type this into Google Books and you get Continuous Assessment: An Introduction and Guidelines to Implementation, A Handbook on Continuous Assessment, Continuous Assessment: A New Approach, Continuous Assessment in the CSE: Opinion and Practice, Weaving Science Inquiry and Continuous Assessment: Using Formative Assessment to Improve Learning, Continuous Assessment for the Successful Implementation of the 6-3-3-4 System of Education: Proceedings of a Multidisciplinary Workshop on Continuous Assessment, Training Handbook for Nigeria Primary School Teachers: Continuous Assessment, Introducing Continuous Assessment in Mathematics in Uganda Secondary Schools, Continuous Assessment in Bhutan, Science Teachers' Perspectives, Continuous Assessment and Lower Attaining Pupils in Primary and Junior Secondary Schools in Ghana, and that's just the first page of 67,000 results. The article may not be great right now, but as a concept it is very obviously notable and there are plenty of sources available. --Michig (talk) 07:59, 5 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 18:12, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete No judgement on notability, just that the content was cut and pasted. probably from Nnadi Goodluck Don hack lord’s Project 2013[1]] without so much as a single reference, not even an academic citation (Smith 1999). Along with it came bad formatting; that's what all those random "o"s are. A ten-fold increase in size without references doesn't come from a dedicated editor. Sorry. Rhadow (talk) 18:54, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The article has existed since 2011. We don't delete the entire history just to erase some recent version. Andrew D. (talk) 20:14, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"We" delete the entire history if the article gets deleted - that's the way it goes on Wikipedia---Steve Quinn (talk) 03:43, 14 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Absurd nomination as this is highly notable and so should be kept for improvement per our editing policy. Please see WP:BEFORE and be aware that AFD is not cleanup. Andrew D. (talk) 20:10, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Andrew - I am not interested in your personal attacks ---Steve Quinn (talk) 03:39, 14 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see a personal attack, just an opinion on the nomination. There's a difference. --Michig (talk) 06:01, 14 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Not just an opinion on the nomination - there are also personal attacks which are also snarky comments. They are unnecessary. Thanks. ---Steve Quinn (talk) 20:24, 14 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep loads of good Google scholar hits too. Probably needs to be renamed, as the article is about education but the term is also used in medicine. Neiltonks (talk) 11:02, 14 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It also needs to be rewritten - I think it needs to be rewritten from scratch. ---Steve Quinn (talk) 20:24, 14 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comment as the nom, I must have been asleep or something when conducting searches for this term. Somehow, I missed the Google Scholar hits, and the Google Books hits. I can't explain it. If I was asked, I would have said that I searched Books and Scholar. I must have used a different and incorrect term or phrase. Anyway, I am changing my ivote to keep. Steve Quinn (talk) 00:14, 15 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

OK, incorrect was what it was for Scholar. The term has to be specified for "education", "teaching", "learning" and so on [2], otherwise the search favors "continuous assessment" in the field of medicine for monitoring patients. Steve Quinn (talk) 00:26, 15 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comment --- Yes yes yes it's an important topic. That doesn't change the fact that it appears 90% of the text is original research which was cut-n-pasted in without attribution. Without a big change now, forcing some well-researched writing, this article will sit for another four years in the same sorry state. Rhadow (talk) 23:11, 18 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 15:01, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, (warning - a rant is coming) "Appears to be a made-up concept. No sources support "Continuous assessment" that is an education policy in any nation as far as I am able to discern." Steve Quinn, you are wrong, wrong, wrong, if you knew anything about education systems you would know that the ACT in Australia (that small territory that contains the capital, no not Sydney but Canberra:)) has had continuous assessment for over 40 years, a simple gsearch under "act education continuous assessment" brings up numerous hits, here are a couple - Sydney Morning Herald - "A defining characteristic of the ACT senior secondary system is its school-based continuous assessment model", ACT Board of Senior Secondary Studies - "Assessment in the ACT is continuous school based assessment.", this afd should be immediately closed as a "keep", especially as the nominator has changed to a "keep", anyway i'm now going to have a nice cup of tea:)) Coolabahapple (talk) 00:21, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - I've literally spent the summer learning about how to apply this as one of the New York City Teaching Fellows. Bearian (talk) 16:32, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
This is the type of deletion nomination that makes me despair of Wikipedia. Of course this is an extremely notable topic, as anyone who has any general knowledge would realise in a nanosecond. And this had to be relisted twice? Why do people who clearly know nothing about the real world have such power over what goes in the world's favourite encyclopedia? 86.17.222.157 (talk) 21:56, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.