Understanding Educational Assessment
About
Understanding educational assessment is essential for everyone, as it plays a crucial role in fostering effective learning and improving educational practices. Set within the frame of policies and social contexts, the course explores how assessment in education is used to support and evaluate learning both in Sweden and globally.
Key topics include the purposes and consequences of formative and summative assessments, as well as critical issues such as fairness and validity. Participants will also discuss key factors involved in assessing learning in lifelong and lifewide contexts. Through engaging workshops and practical tasks, participants will gain an understanding of assessment challenges in various learning contexts and insights on how to address these challenges.
Entry requirements
General entrance requirements
English proficiency
If you have questions about English proficiency requirements, please contact your international coordinator at the University of Gothenburg.
This course can be combined with
This course can be combined with the other courses in the Education Science track; PDG091, PDG093 and PDG459. It can also be combined with one of the following courses from the Teacher Education track (only for Teacher Education students); LÖVU00, L3VU00, L6VU00, as well as with either L3EN10 or L6EN10.
Application
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