Worth reading: Is this the future of assessment? (Christodoulou, D., 2022)

Another interesting «worth to read» piece is found in TES magazine with the title: «Is this the future of assessment?».  The author is Daisy Christodoulou and she introduces the topic as follows: Calls for exams to be scrapped have grown louder in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. But rather than getting rid of exams, …

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Dylan Wilian: There Is No Such Thing as a Valid Test

Dylan explains why it is not correct to say that a test is valid and also share some interesting reflections about reliablity and bias in testing. The video and the audio with questions and answers are available at Learning Sciences Dylan Wiliam Center.     A twitter discussion started by Crispin Weston (@crispinweston) to argue that …

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e-assessment: Interesting data about typing versus handwriting in exams

Surfing the web looking for some e-assessment references for my next task in the subject of ‘Researching method in e-learning‘, I arrived to an Australian project called Transforming exams. There I found a PDF paper titled ‘e-Exams: 2014 UQ Trial outcomes‘ with interesting data about two interesting issues: One is the reasons given by students …

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Student works deserve an equivalent Teacher feedback

Today I rescued this picture from old annotations to reinforce, once again, the power of teacher feedback. I titled this short post as «Student works deserve an equivalent Teacher feeback«. A good complementary picture could be another one to insist on giving feedback as soon as possible to be more effective.