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Jan 17, 2012 · 3. Assessments as Practices. Assessments are organized social activities that are integral to learning and decision-making situations. The “assessments as practices” metaphor builds on what we are coming to understand about how people learn, think, and act, and how they interact in the physical and social world.
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Oct 17, 2021 · Principally, stability of metaphors can be assessed by longitudinal studies. However, virtually all longitudinal studies using metaphors analyzed changes in metaphors of teaching or learning after transgressing into another setting; that is, situations in which changes in conceptions are expected.
- Example 1 – The Pixel Metaphor
- Example 2 – Driving Lesson vs. Driving Test
- Example 3 – Jury Deliberations of Evidence
- Example 4 – Signal Processing
- Example 5 – Assessment as A Toolbox
One assessment metaphor is now common in assessment circles – a single-pixel image becomes progressively more resolved with increasing pixels to show the Mona Lisa (van der Vleuten et al., 2017). This is an exemplar of a specific metaphor being deployed as a thinking tool, and it hinges on the notion that more datapoints equate to a better measure ...
This metaphor has only recently emerged in the health professions assessment literature (Brand et al., 2021). The idea is easy for most to appreciate, and one which we believe will quickly take hold due to its intuitive appeal. The metaphor intends to show what happens when assessment and feedback are confused; when supervisors and learners mix up ...
Competence committees are tasked with reviewing assessment information and making high-stakes decisions about student progress. There is much literature on the need for credible evidence to allow groups to make informed and defensible decisions, and the threat of ‘biases’ (that can be either amplified or attenuated in a group setting). Tweed and Wi...
The next example also relates to validity in assessment, albeit from a more psychometric perspective. In a recent paper in an educational measurement journal, Newton draws on two validity concepts from Messick’s late 20th century work on validity – construct-irrelevant variance and construct underrepresentation (Newton, 2020). They use a signal pro...
The final metaphor we wish to examine is truly ubiquitous in assessment – that is, the idea that assessment should be thought of as a having or using toolbox. The notion of an assessment method as a ‘tool’ is so prevalent a metaphor that it can almost seem self-evident and literal, along with the term ‘instrument’ more commonly associated with psyc...
We begin with a brief introduction to metaphor and offer a critical assessment of the claim that conventional metaphors in language reflect underlying conceptual representations and processing, a view associated with Lakoff and Johnson's groundbreaking conceptual metaphor theory (CMT). We then discuss recent research that examines whether and how metaphor shapes attitudes and reasoning ...
The range of assessment metaphors circulating in higher education reflects the diversity of understandings of assessment. Assessment is a tool for measurement, a process for improvement, and a medium of communication. Its practice at once requires and produces a “culture” of assessment, evidence, accountability, or learning, and students correspondingly figure as participants, objects of ...
Apr 1, 2019 · Metaphor comprehension was assessed using a multiple-choice test that required selection of the best metaphorical interpretation from among three options. Options were developed by discussion among authors and with the help of independent raters. Examples of familiar and unfamiliar predicate metaphors and choice options are provided in Table 7.
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an exemplar of innovative metaphor use, this chapter examines several of these frames. In metaphor theory, metaphor analysis focuses on the implied conceptual mappings of a metaphor and offers vocabulary for describing writers’ creative strategies in rethinking those mappings. Narrative analysis emphasises the narrative context in which meta-
