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Assessment Strategies for Reflective Learning in the Workplace: A Pragmatic Approach
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Roessger, Kevin M. – Adult Learning, 2020
Practitioners often struggle to assess reflective learning in the workplace because of difficulties conceptualizing reflection and its effects in the workplace. This article addresses this problem by offering a pragmatic approach to assessment that asks practitioners to specify why they are using reflection, what they are hoping to gain from it,…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Evaluation Methods, Reflection, Adult Education
Five Key Actions for Redesigning Adult Skills Assessments from Learners, Employees, and Educators
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Javier Suárez-Álvarez; María Elena Oliveri; April Zenisky; Stephen G. Sireci – Grantee Submission, 2024
Summative assessments provide data to evaluate the effectiveness of schools, teachers, and educational policies, contributing to a robust accountability system worldwide. However, educators and scholars argue that summative assessments do not effectively promote ongoing learning, enhance teaching practices, or align with the skills required in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Summative Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Adult Educators
Conceptions of Assessment When the Teaching Context and Learner Population Matter: Compulsory School versus Non-Compulsory Adult Education Contexts
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Remesal, Ana; Brown, Gavin T. L. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2015
This paper presents results of a study on teachers' conceptions of assessment carried out on a sample of 493 teachers of Spanish as foreign language from all over the world. At the moment of data collection, the participants were members of an international online teacher community and were teaching at different professional contexts: basic…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Communities of Practice
Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Workplace Learning Evaluation
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Griffin, Richard – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2011
Purpose: This paper seeks to argue that workplace learning evaluation theory and practice is still an emergent field and that this creates a number of challenges for practitioners and researchers alike. Design/methodology/approach: This is a descriptive paper based on a critical review of existing approaches and the research literature. Findings:…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Outcomes of Education, Evaluation Methods, Learning Theories
Accountability Practices in Adult Education: Insights from Actor-Network Theory
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Fenwick, Tara – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2010
Accountability mechanisms in adult education, their constitution and their effects, are of increasing concern in an era threatening massive reductions to resources for adult education activity. Such mechanisms are frequently portrayed as unassailably oppressive. However, alternative analyses have illuminated contradictions and ambiguities in the…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Adult Education, Accountability, Professional Education
Creating Learning Organizations: A Systems Perspective
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Bui, Hong; Baruch, Yehuda – Learning Organization, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to offer a theoretical contribution to explicate the various factors and aspects that influence Senge's five disciplines and their outcomes. Design/methodology/approach: The paper develops a conceptual framework for the analysis of antecedents and outcomes of Senge's five disciplines, and offers moderators to…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Organizational Development, Learning, Workplace Learning