Why does so much reimagining of teaching and learning in higher education fail to make greater inroads into our assessment practices? Some people argue that assessment is too important to meddle with. In this talk Jan McArthur will argue that it is too important to ignore.

If we are serious about changing and rethinking teaching and learning, then we must be prepared to reimagine assessment. Maybe, even to think the unthinkable. Is treating everyone the same always fair? Are we doing the right things to ensure academic integrity? Why do we need to make fine-grained distinctions between different students’ levels of achievement? Re-imaging assessment offers enormous opportunities to explore richer forms of engagement with knowledge and more satisfying student-teacher relationships.

   4 March 2024

   11:00-13:00h

  Auditorium Campus del Poblenou 

  Activity aimed at the teaching and research staff of the Pompeu Fabra University, open to other teachers and professionals in the field of education, students as well as interested administrative and service staff of the UPF.

  Participation will be certified as a teaching activity.

Programme:

11:00 a 11:10 h: Welcome and presentation by Full Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra Dept. of Information and Communication Technologies, Davinia Hernández-Leo.
11:10 a 12:10 h: Conference “Assessment for Social Justice: is it beyond our imagination?”(in English) impartida per Jan McArthur, Senior Lecturer at the Lancaster Universtity.
12:10 a 12:55 h: Open debate with the audience.
12:55 a 13:00 h: Closing in charge of la professor Davinia Hernández-Leo.

Jan McArthur is Head of Department and Senior Lecturer in Education and Social Justice in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University. Jan has published several books and many journal articles looking at different dimensions of higher education, social justice and assessment. She regularly gives talks on assessment for social justice and/or her own rethinking of the idea of authentic assessment. All Jan’s work is underpinned by her use of Frankfurt School critical theory.

We have some extracts of her work translated into Spanish and edited by Narcea in 2019 with the title of La evaluación: una cuestión de justicia social. Perspectiva crítica y prácticas adecuadas.

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