Open Access9: CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ASSESSMENT AND LEARNING
Author(s) -
Young Sue Fostaty,
Wilcox Susan
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
to improve the academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-4822
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-4822.2010.tb00601.x
Subject(s) - faculty development , pedagogy , psychology , medical education , engineering ethics , mathematics education , professional development , medicine , engineering
To facilitate deeper understanding of teachers' assessment practices, we undertook an educational development inquiry with college and university faculty. Our conversations with instructors about their assessment practices highlighted the complex relationship between teachers' beliefs about teaching, their institutional contexts, and their experiences of teaching. The project gave us valuable opportunities to examine our interactions with faculty and enabled us to identify approaches to educational development that help postsecondary faculty understand and improve their practice.