Exploring Assessment in Education
Posted on January 27, 2018 by grahamgilesubc This is our second exploration in a series of theme-based new pathways in educational change. Rich with insight and story, this sequence is based around curated conversations that explore the theme of assessment in education. The product of collaborative video inquiry, where participants were invited to share in the process of […]
Exploring Assessment 1 – The Contexts and Scope of Assessment
Posted on January 27, 2018 by grahamgilesubc In this initial instalment of the Exploring Assessment Pathway series, we may begin to see in the statements of leaders in (rural) education various forms of engagement with the historical thinking that informs what has been given as assessment in contemporary education in this part of the (broadly European-derived) world. Here […]
Exploring Assessment 2: The Difficulty and Challenge of Assessment
Posted on January 27, 2018 by grahamgilesubc Ok, so it looks like we’re on our way! In this step, we ourselves are on the journey of inquiry the educational leaders introduced in the first step of this pathway. So, where do we find ourselves? In questions of the difficulty, its presence and its absence, in assessment in education. A […]
Exploring Assessment 3: Educators Reengaging Assessment
Posted on January 27, 2018 by grahamgilesubc Here things get tricky! Already, so close to the very outset, our pathway’s mode of (ethical) engagement in education – inquiry – is itself is called into question. Suddenly, the very way we are seeking to re-encounter assessment in education, as something we would wish for students, becomes itself a problem, and a […]
Exploring Assessment 4: Assessment’s “Mysteries” Made Visible
Posted on January 27, 2018 by grahamgilesubc Inquiry is often spiral, it returns to itself anew. The politics of assessment makes its entry onto this pathway here, as four school principals, and one each of a teacher, a school trustee and a superintendent of schools contribute to our inquiry as it turns outward…outward in place, and outward in time. Some questions to […]
Exploring Assessment 5: The Assessment “Machine” vs “Huge Possibility”
Posted on January 27, 2018 by grahamgilesubc Moving right along…we’re nearing the end (for now). Here assessment has spilled right out of curriculum altogether, and into questions of teacher and program assessment. Then, after considering assessment and teacher identity and assessment regimes beyond this jurisdiction and their contrast to British Columbia’s, we return to conclude with structural and […]
Exploring Assessment 6 – Coda: On Inexpert Multidisciplinary Assessment Development
Posted on January 27, 2018 by grahamgilesubc Obviously, the smallest step on this pathway needed the biggest name… So here we come to an end of many beginnings, with a coda of a few statements and reflections we could not bear to omit – with regard for some of the commitments to assessment that were shared with us […]
