Assessment in the Digital Age:Fair Measures?
Steve Wheeler@timbuckteeth
University of Plymouth
eAssessment Scotland: Dundee, Scotland, August 26, 2011
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My school daze
“I have never let my schooling
interfere with my education.”
- Mark Twain
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Competition to write the Lord’s Prayer in <160 characters
r pa in evan, respect 2 u, may u rain ear as in evan. giv us r needs, 4giv r sin as we 4giv r nmes. resq us from the evil 1. 4 ur always the most xlent dude. yo
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“For the first time we are preparing
students for a future we
cannot clearly describe.”
- David Warlick
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Mass working
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Mass synchronisation
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“The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young" - Bertrand Russell
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Does assessment need reform?
The ICT Suite...
http://www.hseb.utah.edu
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“Education is one of the chief
obstacles to intelligence
and freedom of thought.”
- Bertrand Russell
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Schooling
“Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
- Plato Stev
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“It’s a shame that I received more positive feedback from one purchase on eBay than I did in 14 years of formative education” – John Davitt
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Only two things make any significant difference to learning outcomes – constructive feedback and active learning.
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(Summary of research by John Hattie)
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Source: http://www.masalatime.com
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Source: http://www.masalatime.com
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http://4closurefraud.org
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Learning from Peanuts...
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Source: http://www.masalatime.com
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Source: http://www.goiit.com/posts/show/944766.htm
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Ipsative assessment
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Personalisation of learning means ensuring that individual differences are
acknowledged
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Personal Learning Environments
PersonalLearning Environment
Personal Learning Network
PersonalWeb Tools
Source: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html
PLEs are not only personal web tools and personal learning networks. PLEs
are much wider than this, taking in experiences and realia, as well as learning through TV, music, paper based materials, radio &
more formal contexts.
Learning content is not as important now as where (or who) to connect to, to
find it.
PWTs are any web tools, (usually Web 2.0) chosen
by learners to support their lifelong learning.
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Generating Content
Sharing Content Organising Content
Personal Web Tools
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Generating Content
Sharing Content
Blog Mashup
Wiki
Tagging
Personal Web Tools
E-portfolio
Organising Content
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Triadic assessmentPeer Assessment
Tuto
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Self Asse
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Triadic Assessment (Gale et al, 2002)
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http://www.xenstudio.co.uk
Lingua Tweeta
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Since we cannot experience everything, other people’s experiences, and hence other people,
become the surrogate for knowledge.
http://bradley.chattablogs.com
‘I store my knowledge in my friends’ is an axiom for collecting knowledge through collecting people. - Karen Stephenson
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How can we fairly assess
group work?
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Surface Learning
Deep Learning
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Data
Information
Knowledge
Wisdom
Transformation
ENGAGEMENT
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Knowledge and wisdom
http://slated.org
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http://limpa-vias.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in
another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Thank you!
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Steve Wheeler [email protected] University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
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