summative assessment
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The integrity layer: using assessment to scaffold peer learning at scale
Peer feedback is the engine of The Geneva Learning Foundation’s learning system. A new screening tool protects that engine, and its design answers three questions education specialists have been circling for decades: what peer assessment is for, how much verification a learning system can afford, and what a certificate can honestly claim. “Ok ok ok…
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What pre and post tests cannot tell you: A critical review of a widely-used but poorly-understood assessment method
This is the first of two articles about assessment, exploring the limitations and misuse of pre and post tests. The second article examines the framework used by The Geneva Learning Foundation to overcome the limitations described here. The reassuring illusion of the knowledge quiz Imagine a two-day workshop on menopause for healthcare providers. Before the…
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