How out-of-touch Queensland educational authorities are with the global thinking on assessing learning?

July 9, 2024
I cannot afford to purchase the book, but it has been saying exactly the concerns I have raised about how out-of-touch Queensland educational authorities are with the global thinking on assessing learning. The reactionary thinkers had taken over and put us in a backward position.   New Practices, New Perspectives To grade, or not to grade? […]
I cannot afford to purchase the book, but it has been saying exactly the concerns I have raised about how out-of-touch Queensland educational authorities are with the global thinking on assessing learning. The reactionary thinkers had taken over and put us in a backward position.

 

New Practices, New Perspectives

To grade, or not to grade? The traditional approach to evaluating student performance holds that measuring students’ work by a percentage or letter serves as a barometer of how much they’ve learned. But nontraditional approaches have been garnering attention as questions swirl around issues like grade inflation, high failure rates in STEM courses, assessments strategies for online students, and more.

 

This collection of Chronicle opinion essays and news stories provides an overview of various grading methods and views on them — and explores the challenges of measuring student success and learning.

 

Section 1: Concerns and Controversies
Section 2: Alternative Approaches to Assessment
Section 3: Assessment in the Age of AI

 

 

Date: June 2024
Pages: 79
Digital file size: 8.44 MB

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Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.
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