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Disturbing the teacher’s role as assessor: the case of calculated grades 2020–2021 in Ireland

Doyle, Audrey orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-7731-6845 and (2023) Disturbing the teacher’s role as assessor: the case of calculated grades 2020–2021 in Ireland. Irish Educational Studies . ISSN 0332-3315

Abstract
For the first time in the history of the high stakes Leaving Certificate Established examination in Ireland, teachers graded and ranked their own students due to Covid-19 restrictions. In the wake of the process, a questionnaire and focus group interviews explored how teachers engaged with the Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 (CG2020) and how they viewed their role as assessor. The process challenged the becoming of teachers in their personal, professional, and political identity, and it created a space where teachers’ feelings and beliefs oscillated between holding on to the traditional assessment approach and engaging in new possibilities of assessment reform. This paper maps what teachers were feeling and believing during the event of CG2020 and offers possible explanations for these responses through interrogating the molar, molecular and lines of flight of Teacher Assessment Becoming [Deleuze and Guattari. 1988. A Thousand Plateaus. University of Minnesota Press]. The feelings and beliefs of teachers as assessors offer potential lines of flight to reterritorialize through the reimagining of new assessment spaces, but there are many complex challenges to ensure that this reterritorialization does not regroup back into the old, striated space of previous assessment practices..
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Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Assessment; leaving certificate; calculated grades; teacher identity
Subjects:Social Sciences > Education
Social Sciences > Teaching
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Institute of Education > School of Policy & Practice
Publisher:Routledge (Taylor & Francis)
Official URL:https://doi.org/10.1080/03323315.2023.2236597
Copyright Information:© 2023 The Author.
ID Code:29075
Deposited On:18 Sep 2023 14:43 by Vidatum Academic . Last Modified 18 Sep 2023 14:43
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