Ok people, what about this; every training course that I have been on Aims and Objectives are displayed with confidence at the beginning of the session and recapped with pride at the end. Nothing wrong with that you might say. However, in my experience many trainers recap aims and objectives as a duty or as something they know they should do but miss the point. Often the delegates have not understood the course and when the recap process begins it is simply seen as a list of things that were covered and not necessarily information learnt. The big question; does the class understand what has just been covered and more importantly can they prove it. Summative and formative assessment I hear people say, great I say if it's carried out. I still think a lot of people leave a training session without the information they attended the session to gain; primarily because they didn't have the time or opportunity to practice skills or memorize knowledge.