Voor de master Toetsdeskundige (Fontys) worden masterclasses georganiseerd die voor iedereen digitaal en gratis toegankelijk zijn. Geïnteresseerden zijn van harte uitgenodigd om deel te nemen.
Vandaag is het de beurt aan Mary Richardson:
Assessment Dysmorphia: the shifting shapes of learner achievement
A common experience all learners share is that of being assessed at some point in their education. However, it is a particular type of assessment, those tests described as ‘high stakes’ that have the most significant power in shaping learner identities.
This masterclass presents a new way to characterise the power of assessment and its influence on learner identity: Assessment Dysmorphia (AD) – an omnipresent need for only the highest measures of success in all educational outcomes and a limited conceptualization of identity in relation to achievements in education (Richardson, 2022). AD will be discussed in terms of how representation of particular assessment outcomes negatively influences the lives and expectations of learners; just as individuals might modify imagery of their body to create the perfect Instagram self, such ideals distort expectations of the academic self: anything less than a top grade is failure.
Using visual and text-based representations of high stakes assessments in the daily lives of learners, this presentation will consider the potential of AD as a means to interrogate the pervasiveness of test outcomes and their negative influence on learner identity.