We introduced the concept of “defensible decision making” for our MLS participants. What does this concept specifically entail? Defensible decision making means recording a clear rationale for all the decisions you make and the discussions that led to the decisions. At its core, it entails fact-based analysis. The purpose of doing these is to ensure… Read More Defensible Decision Making in Curriculum Design

In this essay, I argue that we should make a dynamic and balanced consideration of different ideological and practical considerations of formative assessment. Inspired by Schwab (1982), I argue that educators ought to practically integrate various formative assessment paradigms and theories so that “the full prices of their incompleteness and partiality” (p. 297) are not paid during implementation. The paradoxical practice of formative assessment is that it ought to produce autonomous rationale learners and it must happen within cultural boundaries that seemingly resist this aim.… Read More Formative Assessment at Crossroads?