How does assessment shape student identities? We talk a lot about how assessment impacts student learning but less about how assessment shapes students themselves. In this integrative review, I shed light on the ontological underpinnings of assessment
Hoi vanhempi tai ope! Jos tiedät oppilaasta joka tarvitsisi apua matematiikan kanssa, niin autan mielelläni 🤓 Olen
#matematiikka
ja tietotekniikan aineenopettaja, ja viittä vaille valmis erkkaope - (verkko-)oppimisen haasteiden suhten voisin siis myös jeesiä!
#et
äopetus
Koulu on tuhottu! Ilmiöt ovat korvanneet oppiaineet! Opetus on vaihtunut itseohjautuvuuteen! Julkinen koulukeskustelu näyttää usein tältä. Kuinka erottaa fakta fiktiosta? Tässäpä tutkijan viiden vinkin lista kriittiseen medialukutaitoon koulukeskustelussa 🧵
#koulu
#kasvatustiede
Voisimmeko resetoida ilmiö-opetukset, henkilökohtaiset opintosuunnitelmat ja antaa opettajien keskittyä opettamiseen
@okmfi
?
Koska tämä nykytekeminen ei selvästikään toimi.
Lisäksi Viro ykkösenä perinteisellä digiavusteisella luokka-opetuksella 🤷♂️
My study "Assessment for Inclusion: rethinking inclusive assessment in higher education" has been published in
@TeachinginHE
! 😊 The paper offers novel theoretical and practical ideas for harnessing
#assessment
as a tool for
#inclusion
in
#HigherEd
OA! 🔓
Huge news: I’ve just signed my contract as tenure-track Assistant Professor in Interprofessional Education and Learning at
@HKUniversity
🤓🥳 There are no words for describing how excited I am to continue my academic adventures at
@hku_education
!
@HkuScape
It's not too many years ago I was unable to produce any text in English. As a student, I was shy to use my English even in conversations with friends. It's been a wild learning process in academia, but today a reviewer called my self-authored paper 'elegantly written' 😭
#PhDlife
Say hello to Dr Juuso! My warmest gratitude to my amazing opponent
@margaret_bea
- it was actually fun to defend my thesis! 😎🍾 Let the the spark of disruptive research grow in my future work! ⚡️
Big news: I’ve been appointed as an Honorary Fellow at
@CRADLEdeakin
@Deakin
! 😊🍾 I’m looking forward to future collaborations on assessment and feedback in higher education with the most awesome team
@margaret_bea
@r_ajjawi
@DrJoannaT
and colleagues!
Yesterday was quite magical! I officially got my PhD, so from now on I’ll go by the name Dr Nieminen 😎 But yesterday I also completed my Master of Education degree and graduated as a special education teacher. And if that wasn’t enough, my quarantine ended as well! 🍾🎉
#PhDlife
Oh whoah - I have been selected as the recipient of the Faculty Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2022-23! 😮🥳 Huge thanks to my awesome friends, colleagues and mentors at
@hku_education
for supporting me in this new research environment in Hong Kong!
How are student identities formed through assessment? We propose that assessment has to be understood as a matter of being and becoming. Our wonderful collaboration with
@liliyang_edu
has been published in Studies in Higher Ed! Open Access 🔓
Exciting news: I am pleased to announce that I've been appointed Higher Education Research Fellow at
@CRADLEdeakin
@Deakin
✨ Stay tuned for multidisciplinary research on
#assessment
and
#feedback
in
#highered
with the most awesome team one could hope for! 😎
#Min
äTutkin oppimisen arviointia sekä siihen liittyvää vallankäyttöä erityisesti oppijoiden näkökulmasta. Ketkä hyötyvät kun arviointia kehitetään - tai kun sitä ei kehitetä? Viime aikoina olen keskittynyt tutkimuksen näkökulmaan: miten arviointia tutkitaan?
@UniEastFinland
Kannatan, että tutkijat laajemmin kertovat, mitä teemme ja mihin pyrimme. Twitterissä voi harjoitella tiivistämistä.
Omani: olen tutkinut ympäristöoikeudellisen ratkaisun teoriaa tavoitteena, että viranomaiset ja tuomioistuimet tekisivät entistä paremmin perusteltuja ratkaisuja.
Päivystys alkakoon!
@UniEastFinland
on myöntänyt minulle dosentin arvonimen, alana kasvatustiede (oppimisen ja osaamisen arviointi). Suuri kiitos! Työ arvioinnin tutkimuksen ja kehityksen parissa jatkuu. UEF has awarded me with the title of a docent (educational assessment)!
This manuscript was finally rejected after 3 rounds of reviews 🙃
#Reviewer2
was still not happy after we used professional proofreading services twice. Not even one example, no feedback - just a vague comment about "major issues" with English. Zero comments by the editor. Argh!
So... we have a manuscript that has gone through two professional proofreading rounds. English is the first language of some of the authors. But this is not enough for
#Reviewer2
who asks, once again, that we need to ask a 'native speaker' to check our text...
#AcademicChatter
I finally got my own copy of our book Inclusive Teaching Practices in Higher Education that is published on Wed! 😍📚 It’s the first Finnish research-based textbook on the topic - I’m so excited to finally hold the book in my hands!!!
@pesonen_henri
#HigherEd
#UniversalDesign
There's been a lot of discussion about "AI-proof assessment" lately! It seems timely to share our review paper on digitally mediated
#AuthenticAssessment
in
#HigherEd
, published a few months before
#ChatGPT
. How to design assessment in the digital world?
Excellent news: I was awarded the Early Career Scheme (ECS) research funding by the University Grants Committee in Hong Kong! 🥳 Stay tuned for research on assessment, grading and student identities in
#HigherEd
with the most awesome collaborators!
Congratulations to Dr Hugo Horta, Dr Priya Londe
@sungtaejang
for being awarded General Research Fund (GRF), and to
@JuusoNieminen
@liliyang_edu
for the Early Career Scheme (ECS) 2023/24🥳🥰
Is it acceptable to mention the chocolate mousse treats you’ve had every single day at the Uni cafe to relieve intense stress in the Acknowledgements section of your article?
#PhDlife
#PhDchat
#AcadememicTwitter
"Olen vain puolikas mies, sillä feminiininen mies on ikuisesti koulumaailman v***n hintti." Tästä mainiosta esseestä nostaisin esille koulun roolin sukupuoleen liittyvien mallien toisintajana ja vahvistajana. Millaisia tytön ja pojan malleja koulu tarjoaa?
To any reviewer ever stating that nine interviews for a qualitative study is not enough: I welcome you to meet my analysis sheet with closer to 1000 codes, waiting to be analysed through three different frameworks 🥵
#PhDlife
#AcademicChatter
I rarely post anything too personal on Twitter, but this is definitely worth it. Couldn’t be more excited to start this new adventure with my favourite person 😊💞
1⃣ Jäitä hattuun! Tämä vinkki on yksinkertaisuudessaan nerokas. Tunnepäissään koulukeskustelussa menevät usein korrelaatiot ja kausaalisuhteet sekaisin. Kriittisille äänille on ehdottomasti oltava tilaa. Hötkyily ei silti palvele niin oppilaan kuin openkaan parasta.
How is theory used in assessment and feedback research? Our critical review with
@margaret_bea
and
@DrJoannaT
has been published in an issue of AEHE! What role could educational theory play in the future of our field of assessment research?
#OpenAccess
🔓
I'll defend my PhD thesis on self-assessment and student agency in higher education on the 21st of Aug at 12 (UCT+3). Welcome to join the online session! The opponent is Prof. Margaret Bearman from
@CRADLEdeakin
😊 Zoom link:
@edu_kumpula
@EduSciHelsinki
Our framework for designing assessment in a digital world has been published in an issue of AEHE! How to design assessment that is relevant for graduates’ digital futures? ⚡️ Highly relevant in the times of
#GenAI
#ChatGPT
!
@margaret_bea
@r_ajjawi
New publication! 📢 Are assessment accommodations cheating? Our critical analysis of
#HigherEd
policies discusses disability adjustment processes amidst 'the fear of the disability con'. Such a wonderful collaboration with
@DrSarahEaton
!
Now it’s official: Next March I’ll start working as a project researcher (and later on, as I’ll get this PhD done, as a postdoc) at
@UniEastFinland
! I’ll continue my work with Assessment for Learning - just couldn’t be more excited! 😊
#PhDlife
Yay, my paper got Revise & Resubmit from a very good journal, with excellent comments attached! One of the nicest feelings in academia is when peer review does not only develop your paper but your thinking as well 😊
#PeerReview
I can’t believe I’m finally typing these words: I just submitted my PhD thesis on self-assessment in higher education to preliminary examination! Väitöskirja jätetty esitarkastukseen! 🤓🎉🍾 Dr. Nieminen, here I come!
#victory
#PhDlife
@edu_kumpula
@helsinkiuni
Today my nerdy dream comes true as I'll start teaching a project-based course on Teacher Assessment Literacy that I've been designing for a while. The project for the students is to design the assessment practices for this course... and then assess themselves, with my guidance 😎
Our critical review of the first 49
#FeedbackLiteracy
studies is published in an issue of Higher Education!
@CarlessDavid
After the online-first paper, various new scales & models have been proposed. I wish our review helps to analyse this expanding field!
The info is online, so I guess it's official. I am beyond excited to give a keynote "Embracing the paradox of inclusive assessment" at
@AheConference
next summer! 🤩 Hope to see many colleagues in Manchester next year! Full abstract here:
How could assessment nurture students’ transformational relationship with knowledge in
#HigherEd
? In our new study with
@LauraKetonen
we conceptualise student epistemic agency as a link between assessment, knowledge and society
#OpenAccess
🔓
2⃣ Faktat haltuun! Tämä vinkki kuulostaa itsestäänselvältä. Koulukeskustelussa kuitenkin jopa media käyttää käsitteitä epämääräisesti, joten en ihmettele että faktat jäävät kaduntallaajalle epäselväksi. Kuvittele, jos talousuutisissa käytettäisiin inflaation käsitettä väärin!
It feels so good to be back in the classroom! This semester I'm teaching quali methods - what a cool way to connect my researcher and teacher identities 😎 Have I presented each of the learning objectives in the form of memes? Yes. Do I have the most awesome students? Yes!!!
I’m turning 30 today! 🥳 It’s been a lovely summer - full of celebration with my dear friends in Europe. I guess it’s ok to continue celebrating until the end of the year, right?!
Our article "Student agency in feedback: beyond the individual" has been published with the most amazing team of
@DrJoannaT
, David Boud and
@mjhenderson
! 😎 We unpack
#feedback
through a socio-cultural and -political approach on agency
#feedbackliteracy
Yessss my PhD article on the interplay of self-assessment and student agency is accepted to Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education! 🎉🤓 I’ve been dreaming to publish there for years - can’t believe this! Not long until I’ll be able to share the paper! 😎
#PhDlife
How to promote student agency in feedback? If students are not interested in feedback, it might be because we systematically restrict their agency through feedback design. Our conceptual study in the latest issue of AEHE:
@DrJoannaT
#DavidBoud
@mjhenderson
The joys of trying to publish assessment research in general educational journals...
#Reviewer2
asks what justifies the usage of the concepts of 'summative' and 'formative' assessment, asking whether we have invented these terms ourselves 😅 Not exactly...
Whoah - my early 2022 study on
#Assessment
for
#Inclusion
in
@TeachinginHE
has reached over 10k views! 😱 I am glad to see that assessment is increasingly discussed through the lenses of inclusion and social justice. Happy to contribute to this discussion!
My study "Unveiling
#ableism
and disablism in assessment" has been published in the latest issue of Higher Education! What could we learn about inclusive and accessible assessment based on the experiences of 139 disabled students?
#OpenAccess
🔓
My study about disabled students' experiences of
#ableism
and
#disablism
in assessment has been published. These findings show the profound barriers that assessment creates for inclusion in
#HigherEd
amidst policies of widened access. OA! 🔓
Happy anniversary on my manuscript that was submitted for review exactly one year ago 🥰 To celebrate I asked the editor about the status of the paper (for the third time): it's been hard to find a second reviewer. Patience should be a dimension of feedback literacy?!
#PeerReview
Tekoäly ravistelee oppimisen arviointia. Huikea juttu!
@LauraKetonen
#ChatGPT
Kuinka suunnitella arviointia siten, että AI ei voisi suorittaa arvioitavaa tehtävää? Alammeko korostaa arvioinnissa ihmisille ominaisia taitoja? Isoja kysymyksiä!
#arviointi
Just got my thesis on
#selfassessment
and
#agency
back from the preliminary examination and... "we consider that Juuso Henrik Nieminen's thesis is completed"! One major step closer to PhD 😊 So ready to swap the 'candidate' part of this title for 'doctor'!
#PhDlife
After years of revisions, our paper has been accepted, pending revisions.
#Reviewer2
: "Rarely, if ever, have I been so pleased by a revision. I thank the authors for taking the comments so seriously and for responding to them in spirit, rather than only by rote" 😭🤩
#PeerReview
An article rejection doesn't feel bad at all when you receive 18 (!!!) pages of constructive feedback 😁 These comments are so on point that I won't be needing my
#FeedbackLiteracy
at all! Dear reviewers, in a few months I'll be back with much stronger arguments 💥
#PhDlife
My first day at
@hku_education
! 🥳 Thank you so much for such a warm welcome! I’m really looking forward to start working with the awesome
@HkuScape
team 😎 Greetings from my new office!
Tässä mainiossa haastattelussa näkyy se, millaisen kielen koulu tarjoaa meille puhua itsestämme oppijoina. Kohtaammeko oppilaat taitoineen kaikessa moninaisuudessaan, kun puhumme keskiarvoista, numeroista ja "kutosen oppilaista"?
#arviointi
#arvosanat
Another milestone on this long road to PhD: The permission for public defence! Väittelylupa! 🥳 I’ll defend my thesis on
#selfassessment
,
#agency
and
#power
in
#highered
on the 21st of August at 12 EET. It’ll be streamed online - welcome!
How could assessment promote students' reflection? Our new study examines
#podcasting
as a novel form of digitally mediated assessment 🎧 We propose that podcasts provide an experiential, authentic and communal approach to assessment. OA! 🔓
@LauraKetonen
Vihdoin ollaan siinä pisteessä että työn alla on väitöksen
#lektio
. Mitä vinkkejä antaisit väittelijälle? Mitkä ovat lektion sudenkuopat? Erityisesti vastaanotetaan neuvot, jos lektiota ei aio lukea suoraan paperista - tuollaista kun en ole koskaan osannut luontevasti tehdä.
Just submitted a paper for
#ECER2021
, and ugh, once again I need to wonder why gender needs to be a part of one's full academic title 😅 Is it truly necessary to differentiate between male and female doctors and professors?
@AcademicChatter
Monet asiat ovat kasvatustieteessä monisyisiä ja tulkittavissa eri tavoin. Mutta mutta, faktantarkastus on mahdollista myös tällä alalla. Tiesitkö että itseohjautuvuus oli mainittuna jo vuoden 2004 POPSissa? Tiesitkö, että pienryhmäopetus voi oikein hyvin olla osa inkluusiota?
My study "Student self-assessment as a form of resistance" has been published in
@BJSocEd
! 😎 SA is framed through a socio-political lens: what is its role in educational systems that value competition, grades and test achievement over critical reflection?
Since I was a student I've been trying to find methodological texts and courses on designing qualitative surveys. There's a LOT on how to design high-quality quanti surveys - but not much on quali ones. Well, tomorrow I'll start teaching a course on quali survey design myself! 😎
Oh academia... I was asked to design and conduct a teacher training session for another institution without a payment. However, as "a token of appreciation", they could send me... a mug
#AcademicChatter
Usein näin opena ja opetuksen tutkijana paras keino ylläpitää ammatillista kehittymistä on astua itse oppijan nahkoihin. Aloitin mandariinikiinan kurssin ja olen heittämällä poppoon kehnoin - se "struggling student" jota koitan tutkimuksessani ymmärtää! Pohdintoja: 🧵
#opehommat
Kiinnostaako
#arviointi
? Nyt olisi tarjolla aivan huikea avoin (!) materiaali formatiivisesta arvioinnista itseltään arviointiguru prof. Päivi Atjoselta! 🤩 Tuhdissa paketissa asiaa mm. palautteesta ja digitaalisesta arvioinnista. Laitetaan kiertämään!
Mainitaanpa vielä, kun aloitin tämän ketjun toisen twiitistä inspiroituneena: tarkoituksena ei ole niinkään "olla eri mieltä" itse aiheesta vaan nostaa keskustelua yhtä pykälää korkeammalle tasolle 😁 Väitän, että on ylipäätään vaikeampaa olla mitään mieltä kun keskustelu sakkaa.
Yayyy, my PhD article with
@asikainen_henna
and Johanna Rämö was accepted for Studies in Higher Education! 🎉🤓 Can’t wait to share our results on how formative and summative (involving self-grading) self-assessment affect studying and self-efficacy!
#PhDlife
#selfassessment
#Min
äTutkin oppilaiden ja opiskelijoiden roolia ja toimijuutta arvioinnissa. Näemmekö opiskelijat arvioinnin passiivisina kohteina vai aktiivisina toimijoina? Kuuluuko opiskelijoiden ääni arvioinnin kysymyksissä? Kuinka arviointi vaikuttaa opiskelijoiden käsityksiin itsestään?
4⃣ Kokemukset kontekstiin! Tarinat ovat ehtaa valuuttaa: kaikilla meistä on kokemuksia koulusta, joten tunnepohjaiset kokemustarinat myyvät ja resonoivat. Esimerkiksi opettajien ja oppilaiden kokemuksia on äärimmäisen tärkeää kuulla, mutta "tarinatalouden" kanssa on oltava tarkka
After two years of
#PhDlife
, here it is: My dissertation ���The lunatics have taken over the assessment: Utilising summative self-assessment to theorise - and disrupt - the interplay of agency and power in undergraduate mathematics education” in its very physical form! 📚🎉
Interested in emotions in feedback? The most awesome
@CindySJ46
is presenting on her scoping review on the topic in Room 10 - there’s still room here! 😎 A very proud supervisor moment as Cindy is my first PhD student!!!
#AssessmentConf23
My conceptual study about
#InclusiveAssessment
in
#HigherEd
is accepted for publication - stay tuned! 😎 One reviewer said the nicest thing: that the study doesn't only add knowledge about assessment but is an exemplar of "meticulous argumentation linking theory and practice" 😭
What a weekend this has been! My PhD journey is finally over, and I couldn’t be more excited while waiting for my postdoc adventures. I feel deeply happy as I was able to celebrate with my dearest friends and family. Thank you so much, everyone! ⚡️✨
In the modern knowledge societies,
#highered
should prepare students to actively produce and evaluate knowledge. How does
#assessment
support such goals? Our study "Assessment and epistemic (in)justice" has been published in
@TeachinginHE
!
@jjlahdenpera
🥳
How to disrupt the power relations in
#assessment
from within the system? Is it possible to 'empower' students without systemically rethinking grading in
#HigherEd
? My final PhD article from 2020 has been published in the latest issue of
@TeachinginHE
29! 🥳🥂 This year I’m celebrating my birthday in a hotel quarantine. I guess this is one of those essential pandemic experiences we can joke about in a few years? Luckily my partner (whom I’ve only seen waving at me from the street) made sure I had a yum birthday breakfast 😁
Some much needed good news: My final PhD article has been accepted to
@TeachinginHE
! 🤓🎉 Very soon I’ll be able to share my take on whether
#assessment
, and
#selfassessment
in particular, can be used to tackle the issues of power in higher education. So stay tuned!
Erityismaininnan faktojen saralla saakoon
#opetussuunnitelma
-keskustelu. Tiedätkö mikä on opetussuunnitelman perusteiden ja kunnallisen opetussuunnitelman ero? Tiesitkö, että OPS ei noin vaan määrittele, mitä luokkahuoneissa oikeasti tapahtuu?
Our study 'A socio-political approach on autistic students’ sense of belonging in higher education' is out in the new issue of
@TeachinginHE
! ⚡️ We argue that belonging is very much a political matter and call for inclusive policies+practices in
#HigherEd
Just received a desk rejection after waiting for one month… because, apparently, there was an APA mistake somewhere in our APA-formatted manuscript. I’m sure the reviewers could have lived through this one formatting typo… 🙃
#AcademicChatter
#PhDlife
My study on the portrayal of disabled students in assessment research has been published! I discuss how scholarly research contributes to the public discourse that frames disabled students as 'a spanner in the works' - as non-ideal students in
#HigherEd
Kirjavinkkinä mainittakoon Kertomuksen vaarat, joka avasi itselleni uusia tapoja lukea koulutarinoita kriittisesti. Tarvitsemme kertomuksia, mutta ne on pystyttävä laittamaan laajempaan kontekstiinsa kriittisellä otteella:
Yleinen polarisointi uuden/vanhan, ope/oppilasjohtoisen opetuksen välillä tarjoaa lattean kuvan tarkastella oppimista ja opetusta. Tässä lukijan mielipiteessä "uutena" näyttäytyy läksyttömyys, "vanhana" summatiiviset kokeet. Mikä jaossa mättää? Lyhyt 🧵
Jopas oli
#PedaForum2023
! Suuret kiitokset mikä huikeimmasta konferenssikokemuksesta. Konffaan mahtui iloa, inspiraatiota, kohtaamisia, antoisia keskusteluja - ja tietenkin tanssia. Ensi vuoteen!
@pedaforum23
‘Finally studying for myself!’ How could formative and summative
#selfassessment
models promote student
#agency
? My PhD article has been published in Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education - 50 free pre-prints available! 🥳
PISA-keskustelussa esimerkiksi usein puhutaan "suomalaisesta koulusta" ikään kuin yhtenä klönttinä. Sama pätee siihen, kuinka kuvaamme tiettyjä (tosimaailmassa heterogeenisiä) ihmisryhmiä. Ovatko kaikki erityistä tukea saavat nuoret sylkeviä sirkuseläimiä?
A very powerful mini keynote by
@JanMcArthur
. This is perhaps my favourite slide in the conference so far: can we justify studying assessment in isolation anymore?
#aheconference2022
Yksi näkökulma: koulutuksen tarkoitus ei ole olla rallikisa jossa kilpaillaan, ohitellaan ja kiihdytellään. Onko
#PISA
-tuloksista, kansainvälisestä kilpailusta ja näihin liittyvistä mediaspektaakkeleista tullut Suomessa koulutuksen itsetarkoitus?
So... we have a manuscript that has gone through two professional proofreading rounds. English is the first language of some of the authors. But this is not enough for
#Reviewer2
who asks, once again, that we need to ask a 'native speaker' to check our text...
#AcademicChatter
After spending the day by peer-reviewing an article, I have a couple of thoughts. First: damn I’m good at this - background in education certainly helps! And: How could we make this invisible, professional work noted and appreciated? Do you mention reviews in your CV?
#PhDlife
Taas mennään! 😎
#Min
äTutkin arviointia eri koulutuksen tasoilla. Olen kiinnostunut arvioinnin sosiaalisista, kulttuurisista ja poliittisista vaikutuksista. Kuinka oppilaan kehitykseen vaikuttaa jatkuva numeerinen arviointi? Miksi ajattelemme juuri kokeiden mittaavan osaamista?
#PISA
-keskustelu on muuten lemppariaiheeni mitä tulee tähän ensimmäiseen vinkkiin. Kyllä, PISA-tulokset ovat laskeneet. Mutta onko kyseessä KARU ROMAHDUS? Vaikeistakin asioista on syytä keskustella kriittisesti, mutta: jäitä hattuun!
@HeiskanenNoora
@MayaHartikainen
Toivon että tämän järkyttävän virheen myötä leviäisi ymmärrys siitä, ettei ongelmana ole vain sanavalinnat vaan kokonaisvaltainen tapa ymmärtää neurodiversiteettiä ja ylipäätään erilaisuutta ja moninaisuutta (”sairastuminen”, ”puhkeaminen”)
How does assessment feel like? How could we better understand the role of emotions in assessment and feedback in
#HigherEd
? See our latest
@HkuScape
Blog post by Chen Shijun and myself ⚡️
How are student identities shaped by assessment? I am beyond excited to hold the next
@CRADLEdeakin
seminar on 5 April at 2pm AEDT 😊 Register below and join the seminar in Melbourne or online!
#HigherEd
#assessment
How are student's identities shaped by assessment? How does assessment transform students? Find out with
@JuusoNieminen
for our 4th seminar of 2023 on 5 April.