Assessment in the Digital Age: Fair Measures?

Assessment in the Digital Age:Fair Measures?

Steve Wheeler@timbuckteeth

University of Plymouth

eAssessment Scotland: Dundee, Scotland, August 26, 2011

http://www.flickr.com/photos/darrenhester/3901158717/

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My school daze

“I have never let my schooling

interfere with my education.”

- Mark Twain

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/4886003349/

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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http://le-flaneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/office-workers.jpg

Mass working

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Mass synchronisation

http://www.delasallewaterford.com

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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

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aldoaldoz/4815419108/

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Schooling

“Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

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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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http://4closurefraud.org

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Learning from Peanuts...

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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!

W: steve-wheeler.netE: [email protected]: steve-wheeler.blogspot.comT: @timbuckteeth

Picture by Helen Keegan

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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK:

International Licence.

Steve Wheeler [email protected] University of Plymouth, United Kingdom

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