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Principles and purposes of assessment in the classroom
Get PDFIt might not always feel like it but, as teachers, we are constantly using assessment information to make decisions about what to say, what tasks to set and what to do with task outcomes. Every interaction with students is a potential assessment opportunity, in the sense that such interactions provide us with information about how learning is going, in order to help us to adapt our teaching.
Assessment influences school and classroom culture, impacts on pupil and teacher ideas about learning and determines what is taught and how. According to Stobart (2008, p. 1), ‘Assessment does not objectively measure what is already there, but rather creates and shapes what is measured.’
The effective use of assessment provides both the means to identify whether students have succeeded and the information to help teachers to support those who have not yet ‘got there’. This article will emphasise the use of assessment as we consider principles and purposes. It will explore formative and summative purposes to support meaningful use of assessment, and the principles of validity and reliability to inform decision-making
The emotional relations of children's participation rights in diverse social and spatial contexts: advancing the field
Get PDFChildren's participation rights, enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), have been a popular area of research, policy and practice for decades. Despite a great deal of interest and activity, participation rights have posed a particular challenge to implement. In response, researchers have consistently called for more in-depth and nuanced analyses of the way participatory rights are actually lived and experienced by children and young people, within the complexity of interdependent relationships. However, there has been surprisingly little focus on the emotional relations of children's participation rights. The analytical links between emotions and participation rights are rarely the focus and, where emotions are discussed, they are rarely discussed as a central concern in their own right. This article provides a review of the field and identifies three ways in which making emotions a central concern can help to advance debates on children's participation rights: by helping to unsettle ‘traditional’ constructions of the child-adult binary, by increasing sensitivity to ethical and safeguarding issues, and by making visible and challenging intersectional power relations
An evaluation of the National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance’s Professional Mentoring Scheme 2020/21
No full textThe National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance (NCJAA) supports arts organisations working in the criminal justice system. The NCJAA Professional Mentoring Scheme is an annual programme that has operated since 2013-14, offering mentees six months of mentoring support with an experienced member of the network. In 2021 the NCJAA commissioned Ella Simpson, a researcher based at Bath Spa University, to conduct a summary evaluation of the 2020/21 iteration of the scheme. The evaluation used qualitative interview, focus group and textual data to evaluate the effectiveness of the scheme and make recommendations for practical improvements
(In)fertility, the media & me (2018) [REF2021 collection]
No full text‘(In)Fertility, the Media & Me’ is a documentary co-produced by Levy and Farrar, growing out of Feasey’s monograph, ‘Infertility and Non-Traditional Family Building’ (2019). A single-component output, the documentary adopts reflexive practice-based research methods (Sullivan, 2009; McNamara, 2011). It deals with three interrelated research trajectories: one, how documentary filmmaking can develop new ways of engaging with academic themes; two, the role of participatory ethnographic methods in this process; and three, what these aforementioned approaches reveal about the chosen subject matter of representations of (in)fertility in the media. Contextual information in this collection comprises video diaries with participants and other audience responses, as well as documentation of the output’s public screenings.
This single-component output Collection contains the 300-word statement, a Research Timeline and Research Questions, the full documentary film as a confidential file, and video diaries of the participants
Jerwood Open Forest Commission: Joyride (2017) [REF2021 collection]
No full textJoyride was commissioned through the Jerwood Open Forest Commission in 2017, an initiative established by the forestry Commission and Jerwood Charitable Foundation. It was a community-focused live event, which brought together personal and social narratives around the automotive industry, in the West Midlands, informed by the artist’s upbringing in the post-industrialised Black Country.
This Collection comprises a single-component output with contextualising information, evidencing the Joyride (2017) event at Cannock Chase, where a clay replica of the final classic Rover 75, created by Harrison with renowned car-modeller Anthony Tovey, was elevated at sunset and then released down a 20m ramp built using repurposed forestry materials in collaboration with local industry specialists. An invited audience illuminated proceedings with their car headlights. Contextualising information includes a 300 word statement, research timeline, and research questions, as well as documentation of proposals for the project
Forests and trees (2015-2020) [REF2021 collection]
No full textForests and Trees focuses on research into landscape as metaphor for the human condition, the Contemporary Sublime, human psychology, atmospheric conditions and subjects surrounding climate change.
This Collection comprises a multi-component output with contextualising information, providing evidence of three vitrine works shown at five exhibitions, and two audio-visual installations. The items document: the inclusion of And Then The World Changed Colour: Breathing Yellow in the exhibition Among The Trees that opened at the Hayward Gallery on 4th March 2020; the exhibition of And Then the World Changed Colour: Breathing Yellow', a sculptural installation commissioned for the mausoleum at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London and displayed as part of the exhibition, Painting Norway (13 February – 2 June 2019); the inclusion of And the World Changed Colour: Breathing Yellow in 'Sediment', a solo survey exhibition of Mariele Neudecker's work at Limerick City Gallery of Art in Ireland, (6th September until 17th November 2019); What If We All Stopped?, a tank work made for and exhibited at Art Basel 2018; The Touch of Earthly Years, a tank work made specifically for Neudecker's solo exhibition, Echo Chamber, at the Pedro Cera gallery in Lisbon in 2018; the making and installation of Hanging Gardens:Parallel Lives an audio visual work commissioned for the 3 main passenger lifts at the New Cancer Centre at Guys Hospital, London; and Figure of 8, a surround sound work, which formed part of Film Basel, Miami in 2015.
Contextualising information includes a 300 word statement, research timeline, and research questions
Polymorphism in audio-visual composition (2016, 2020) [REF2021 collection]
No full textPolymorphism in audio-visual composition is a multi-component output that includes two compositions, Continuum (2016) and silently out of the night (2020).
Continuum explores a method of audio-visual composition that aims to simulate a complex physical system. The central concept of the piece was to place the listener in an encounter with an intense energetic phenomenon such as the plasma of nuclear fusion. In order to produce the desired results in the audio element of the composition I developed a methodology that uses phase vocoder cross- synthesis and specific sonic materials. The album was released on Subtext Recordings in February 2016, and Jebanasam toured the AV performance internationally from 2016 to 2018.
'silently out of the night' examines the use of computer simulations and temporal manipulation techniques in the creation of an audio-visual artwork. The artistic aim of the piece was to present a sequence of cinematic shots that depict the movement clouds, water and fire as one imaginary material using shadow, light and sound. 'silently out of the night' was screened at Seeing Sound 2020, an online practice-led symposium exploring multimedia work which foregrounds the relationship between sound and image.
This Collection comprises a multi-component output with contextualising information, providing evidence of the outputs and their dissemination, and as contextualising information, a 300-word statement, research timeline, and research questions
Dancing the soma-ecstatic: Feldenkrais and the modernist body
No full textThis chapter retraces body-codes and creative emancipatory ethics found in the work of Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-1984) to the beginnings of early-Modernist European Dance and Body Cultures as exemplified by the work of Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, Hanya Holm or Gertrud Bodenwieser. The author suggests that Feldenkrais’s emphasis on a fostering of the mature adult as a curious, creative and emancipated individual emerged from the early modernist ‘Körperkultur’ (body culture) and dance beginnings that formed important part of the cultural milieu in 1920’s Palestine which Feldenkrais encountered before he left for Paris. Feldenkrais experienced holistic dance/gymnastic studies with Israeli expressive modern dance pioneer Margalit Ornstein (Vienna 1888 – Tel Aviv 1973) before moving to Paris. Ornstein was influenced by the work of Viennese Choreographer Gertrud Bodenwieser (1890 - 1959) and European body-culture pioneer Bess Mensendieck (1864–1957), both visionary emancipatory proto-somatic pioneers. While revealing similarities between Mensendieck’s, Bodenwieser’s and Feldenkrais’ ethos and practices, the chapter also places Feldenkrais into the context of post 1940’s Israeli body-culture education which drew on European exile Modern Dance and holistic Reform-Gymnastic practices including the work of Elsa Gindler (1885-1961). By offering an alternative and feminist history, the chapter re-views the beginnings of Feldenkrais’s work not as the work of a monolithic genius but as situated within an interdisciplinary milieu that emerged from utopian and diasporic Modernist artistic and educational endeavours
The queen on our corner
No full textNobody notices the queen on the corner. Nobody, that is . . . except one young girl. Through her eyes, the woman who dwells in the abandoned plot is a warrior queen, with many battles fought and won. When, one day, danger comes to the street and the queen on the corner sounds the alarm, the little girl must find a way to thank her. Can she bring the community together to turn the queen's corner into a home
Therapeutic jurisprudence and the development of family courts in Ireland.
No full textWhile specialised family and children’s courts are commonplace throughout Europe and in other common law jurisdictions, Ireland has yet to develop such courts. Despite the Family Court Bill, the purpose of which was to establish a dedicated family court, being announced in 2018, at the time of writing it had reached the pre-legislative scrutiny stage. This paper considers the importance of therapeutic jurisprudence to the development of family courts. It examines the international literature on therapeutic jurisprudence and considers how family courts should adhere to therapeutic principles in order to create respectful and supportive court environments, before arguing that any new family court model in Ireland should also adhere to therapeutic principles. This paper should therefore act as a useful guide to politicians, policy makers and the judiciary, all of whom will surely be involved in the future development of family courts in Ireland