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I am incredibly excited to be able to share with you this ERRR interview with Daisy. Today’s discussion is all about assessment and I find it hard to think of a more important, and relevant, topic for us to discuss. Assessment, in many ways, drives what happens in classrooms and given the way that international rankings like PISA shape education policy at the national level, to the way that state exams influence how students are taught at the local level, there’s little doubt that we’re often faced with the Assessment tail wagging the pedagogical dog.
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Further, there are many concepts in todays discussion that I believe are vital knowledge for educators. We begin discussing different models of learning, and how they influence assessment. We talk about Assessment for learning, and why it hasn’t had the impact that it could have. We explore incredibly important concepts such as validity, and reliability, and bring them into focus in discussion about coaching for high stakes exams and other applications. We talk about rubrics, question level analysis and much more before spending the last section of the interview discussing comparative judgment, a new and innovative approach to assessment that holds much promise for assessing complex tasks in a reliable and holistic way. It was really a joy to speak to daisy and I hope you take as much from it as I did : )
In today’s episode we’re speaking to Daisy Christodoulou. Daisy is Director of Education at No More Marking, an educational organized focused on helping improve assessment processes and enhance learning. Daisy was previously head of education research at the Ark schools, and prior to that was a high school English teacher. Daisy has written two books on education, in the first, Seven Myths about Education* Daisy argued for the centrality of knowledge in education, and suggested that it’s currently sidelined in contemporary discourses about teaching and learning. But today we’re talking about her second book, Making Good Progress? The future of Assessment for Learning*. In 2017 Daisy was named by Anthony Seldon as one of “The 20 most influential figures in British Education”
Links mentioned in the show
- Daisy's links
- Blogs and sites that Daisy recommended
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