Professor Jonathan Tummons jonathan.tummons@durham.ac.uk
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Education as a mode of existence: a Latourian inquiry into assessment validity in higher education
Tummons, J.
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Abstract
Within professional higher education, the construct of assessment validity is used to make assumptions about the extent to which students are able to replicate in professional practice what they have learned during their studies through the provision of authentic simulated opportunities to practice. Drawing on the work of Bruno Latour, this article argues that the conceptualisation as well as use of the idea of assessment validity in theorising the assessment of simulation-based learning in professional courses, in order to predict the future performance of the student constitutes a category mistake that consequently makes claims for assessment validity which are unfounded. The article goes on to explore ways by which ethnographers of education might use other elements of Latour’s work in order to generate rich, problematising accounts of educational practice.
Citation
Tummons, J. (2020). Education as a mode of existence: a Latourian inquiry into assessment validity in higher education. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 52(1), 45-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2019.1586530
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Feb 10, 2019 |
Online Publication Date | Mar 5, 2019 |
Publication Date | 2020 |
Deposit Date | Feb 20, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 5, 2020 |
Journal | Educational Philosophy and Theory |
Print ISSN | 0013-1857 |
Electronic ISSN | 1469-5812 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis Group |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 52 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 45-54 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2019.1586530 |
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Educational philosophy and theory on 5 March 2019 available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00131857.2019.1586530
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