Course overview
In this course, students will critique and contribute to contemporary understanding of effective assessment, evaluation and managing learning, and to build advanced insight into the development learning communities that are ethically, socially and professionally sustainable in a lifelong learning perspective. Students will conceptually explore the contested (inter-)relationship between learning and effectiveness as a complex socio-cultural and historical process exemplified by a number of case studies: testing, feedback and the use and interpretation of results gathered and disseminated on different levels (classroom, school, national and international), self-evaluation and judgment practices including moderation (school, teacher and student), the classroom as a complex ecology rather than simply a behavouristic arena for order, punishment and clinical teaching; enacting humane behaviour practices to manage learning environments.
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate a deep understanding of research based conceptions of effectiveness and the connection with assessment, evaluation and managing learning in different learning communities?
- Show advanced problem solving skills in inter-related field of assessment, evaluation and managing learning
- Appreciate the effect of personal and professional ethical actions and the implication of community and policy interventions in different learning communities and diverse cultures where sustainable assessment, evaluation and managing learning are focal concerns
- Apply knowledge of effective learning processes and structures of power to a number contested issues and practices, such as international, national and school/classroom testing; the move towards negotiated school self-evaluation; resilience amongst educational professionals and students