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Assessment

How learning is measured, and how measurement shapes learning.

“Marks can remain a signal. They must stop becoming identity.”

Deepu S Nath, “The Fishbowl Is Not the Future”

Discussions & evidence

Ideas in this theme

Portfolio-based assessment, piloted alongside exams

Illustrative example
  1. idea
  2. exploring
  3. prototyping
  4. testing
  5. validated
  6. recommended
Problem
High-stakes examinations concentrate enormous consequence behind a narrow gate: they certify memory of covered content rather than demonstrated capability, and too much of a learner's future rides on too little evidence.
Intervention
A term-long pilot in which a cohort maintains an evidenced portfolio of real work, assessed against a published rubric, run alongside existing exams rather than replacing them, with the comparison published either way.
Feasibility: high

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The Portfolio Pilot

Employers say they trust evidence of real work over marks, but few institutions offer students a structured way to produce and certify that evidence.

HypothesisIf a cohort maintains an evidenced portfolio against a published capability rubric for one term, external reviewers will rate it a stronger hiring signal than the same cohort's marksheets.

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