Doyle, Audrey ORCID: 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..
Metadata
Item Type: | Article (Published) |
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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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