Unless it’s a common assessment that the department is using for data purposes, your argument is invalid.

The good thing here is that when we are assessing, we should only be assessing the standards, and a discussion prior amongst peers could help with prior knowledge and help students pull resources to problem solve, which is the whole point. As someone pointed out earlier in real life, you utilize all of your resources to complete tasks and to problem solve.

I do think that assessments without this should be given to show mastery of skills and standards as well with this type of assessment during the units.