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Assessment is a Wicked Problem (Part Four): Course Mapping is Misleading
Several years ago, I attended a six-session training offered by the teaching and learning center at my then university. I wanted to get certified for hybrid courses, meeting students in person once a week and having them work asynchronously the other day. Here is the text of a slide presented early in the training: Course… Continue reading
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Assessment is a Wicked Problem (Part 3): Learning is a (Useful) Fiction
Off the bat, I concede some academic clickbait in this title. In calling learning a fiction, I obviously don’t mean that the experience of gaining knowledge or acquiring skills and abilities doesn’t happen. I mean fiction in the sense Adam Mastroianni (drawing on Yuval Noah Harari) uses to characterize psychology’s fundamental conundrum: studying inherently abstract… Continue reading
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