The surrealist artist, Magritte, painted a series of 'Ceci n'est pas' works (1928-9), suggesting that even through realism in art, the artist can only represent an image rather than the thing itself. In many ways assessment and research are like that. Both quantitative and qualitative data can only represent a snapshot of a students' learning rather the complexity of their actual learning.
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