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Learning gain: political expedient or meaningful measurement?

Learning gain: political expedient or meaningful measurement?
Learning gain: political expedient or meaningful measurement?
The political craving for simple measures of learning gain is neither pedagogically informed nor sufficiently nuanced. Alex Forsythe, Carol Evans, Camille Kandiko Howson and Corony Edwards argue that only by changing focus will the concept become useful
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Edwards, Corony
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Kandiko Howson, Camille
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Forsythe, Alex, Evans, Carol, Kandiko Howson, Camille and Edwards, Corony (2018) Learning gain: political expedient or meaningful measurement? Times Higher Education.

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Abstract

The political craving for simple measures of learning gain is neither pedagogically informed nor sufficiently nuanced. Alex Forsythe, Carol Evans, Camille Kandiko Howson and Corony Edwards argue that only by changing focus will the concept become useful

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Accepted/In Press date: 10 August 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 13 September 2018
Published date: 13 September 2018

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Local EPrints ID: 424783
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/424783
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Date deposited: 05 Oct 2018 11:45
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 06:59

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Author: Alex Forsythe
Author: Carol Evans
Author: Camille Kandiko Howson
Author: Corony Edwards

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