Foundations of Educational Assessment
Critical examination of educational assessment history, design, and equity, challenging standard psychometric methods through critical pedagogies.
Summary
What you’ll be able to do
Articulate, based on a solid understanding of the existing literature, what educational assessment is and how it has been changing over time.
Articulate the qualities pertinent to educational assessment and how they manifest across diverse contexts where educational assessments are utilized to inform both formal and informal decisions.
Identify educational systemic structures within society and educational system that have influenced the development of educational assessment over time.
Articulate the prevailing trends and emerging themes that have the potential to reshape educational assessment, along with their implications.
Utilize assessment design frameworks with critical lenses to propose equitable assessment methods and tools.
Employ critical thinking to assess the qualities of assessments, such as validity and fairness.
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Gain the ability to think critically and creatively about the role of assessment in our education system, aiming to pave a pathway toward better assessments. Seeks to challenge standard methods in assessment design and development, as well as psychometric notions of what constitutes good assessment. Through the application of critical pedagogies and theories, create assessments that align with the modern understanding of how people learn, placing justice at the core of the commitment and design principles.
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Topics
- Assessment design and development methods
- Critical pedagogies and justice-centered assessment design
- Systemic structures influencing assessment history
- Validity, fairness, and quality of assessments
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- Articulate the nature and historical evolution of educational assessment
- Identify assessment qualities across diverse decision-making contexts
- Analyze systemic structures influencing assessment development
- Evaluate trends and themes reshaping educational assessment
- Propose equitable assessment methods using critical design frameworks
- Critically assess validity and fairness of assessments
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