Little Big Question # 7: The “transfer of knowledge” and the “assessment of students” as a seamless and simultaneous process?

(Article: Arminen, I. (2005). Classrooms and the transmission of knowledge and expertise (pp. 112-134). In I. Arminen (Ed.) Institutional interaction: Studies of talk at work. Ashgate Publishing.)

The “transfer of knowledge” and the “assessment of students” look like very different, and somehow subsequent, steps. Could you imagine a system in which these two stages take place seamlessly and almost simultaneously? (See J.P. Gee on digital games) What kind of features should such a system have?