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Assessment: values in, value out.Dr Andy Grayson, Nottingham Trent University, hosted by School of Psychology Pedagogy Lab & EPS Innovation in Teaching Group
I’d like to pitch to you the benefits of developing an approach to assessment that is fundamentally values-driven. Needless to say, all aspects of learning and teaching are underpinned by values, somewhere. But what I am talking about here is the business of clearly explicating those values, with a view to getting collective buy-in from an entire learning community. Doing this can have good effects, in my experience, on all aspects of learning and teaching, and indeed on the whole business of working together. And I’m not talking about empty corporate values that float meaninglessly in mid-air, fluttering aimlessly around five-year institutional plans. I’m talking about ideas that drive everyday practice; principles that get talked about in the course of doing things; values that you can return to when trying to make difficult decisions about the small stuff (a particular student’s piece of work) and the big stuff (planning a course).
During the session(s), one way or another I’d like to take a look at the values that I have worked to explicate and illustrate how and why they have been important. This will probably include most of the following (and perhaps more):
- Collective ownership of learning, teaching, and assessment
- The 'least dangerous assumption'
- ‘We are our students’ (oh yes, indeed we are)
- Never chase the metrics!
- Valuing all students, no matter what their trajectory through a course
- ‘What is it that we’re doing when we’re assessing students?’
- Good assessment necessarily entails effective administration
- Fairness
- Encouragement
- The value of values
- And maybe something on degree algorithms…
| Period | 27 Mar 2023 |
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| Event type | Seminar |
| Location | Belfast, United KingdomShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | Local |