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Why does Toku increase difficulty?

Because practice should respond to what the child has already demonstrated. Once work is consistently secure, harder variants can provide a more useful challenge than repeating the same easy level.

Toku uses performance to guide the next step. When a skill is becoming secure, the practice can progress instead of keeping the child on work they already handle comfortably.

Use the child’s performance to guide progression

Formative assessment is built around changing subsequent learning in response to evidence of current understanding.[1]

Look for a reliable pattern

Mastery approaches typically require a criterion or pattern of performance before progression and corrective work when the criterion is not met.[2]

Challenge still needs to be appropriate

Making work harder can be useful only when the learner has enough knowledge to engage with it productively.

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参考文献

  1. Paul Black & Dylan Wiliam (1998). Assessment and classroom learning. Assessment in Education.
  2. Chen-Lin C. Kulik, James A. Kulik & Robert L. Bangert-Drowns (1990). Effectiveness of mastery learning programs: a meta-analysis. Review of Educational Research.
  3. Education Endowment Foundation (2026). Feedback. Teaching and Learning Toolkit.