Close menu

SURE

Sunderland Repository records the research produced by the University of Sunderland including practice-based research and theses.

How can our understanding of Assessment Theories and Processes enable us to support Learning to Make a Social Difference?

Taras, Maddalena (2019) How can our understanding of Assessment Theories and Processes enable us to support Learning to Make a Social Difference? In: International Conference on Learning, 24th - 26th July 2019, Belfast.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)

Abstract

Assessment is ubiquitous, we assess almost every moment of our daily lives to make decisions about our activities and, in the educational context, our work and our understandings. Understanding assessment theories and practices, particularly inclusive, learner-centred practices explicitly, is an efficient means of empowering and enabling the next generation to have the courage to challenge injustices in all levels and contexts of life. Shared explicit, transparent assessment processes can and should be put into practice in order to support learning and make a socially equitable difference.
Assessment theories are varied and uncoordinated and pose a challenge to unravel. This paper analyses and evaluates different theoretical positions in international Anglophone research in order to ascertain how best practice can be supported for learner-inclusive assessment.
The evaluation of assessment theories demonstrates that the main definitions of assessment (including summative and formative assessment) are viewed from two different perspectives: one bases these on the processes of assessment while the other on functions of assessment. How these assessment theories may be reconciled is also examined. In practice, these differences tend to be reflected in explicit procedures when definitions are linked to processes, and to implicit procedures when definitions are based on functions of assessment.
These different assessment perspectives result in very different consequences for the roles and responsibilities of students and tutors, and how learning may be viewed and supported. Clarifying assessment issues has huge impact on both learning and teaching practices, and ultimately, on how society envisages justice.

Full text not available from this repository.

More Information

Depositing User: Klaire Purvis-Shepherd

Identifiers

Item ID: 10938
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/10938

Users with ORCIDS

ORCID for Maddalena Taras: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-8543-0047

Catalogue record

Date Deposited: 05 Jul 2019 08:06
Last Modified: 18 Dec 2019 16:08

Contributors

Author: Maddalena Taras ORCID iD

University Divisions

Faculty of Education and Society
Faculty of Education and Society > School of Education

Actions (login required)

View Item (Repository Staff Only) View Item (Repository Staff Only)