Developing Consistency in Teacher Judgement Formation through Online Meeting Centres

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Foreign Countries; Learning Theories; Student Evaluation; Curriculum Implementation; Educational Assessment; Academic Standards; Transcripts (Written Records); Interaction; Middle School Students; Educational Innovation; Computer Mediated Communication; Discussion Groups; Internet; Computer Software; Educational Technology; Discourse Analysis; Interviews; Meetings; Content Analysis; Teacher Attitudes; Synchronous Communication; Teleconferencing; Computer Uses in Education

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This paper investigates the complex interactions that occur as teachers meet online to justify and negotiate their assessment judgements of student work across relatively large and geographically dispersed populations. Drawing from sociocultural theories of learning and technology, the technology is positioned as playing a role in either supporting or hindering teachers reaching a common understanding of assessment standards. Meeting transcripts and interviews with the teachers have been qualitatively analysed in terms of the interactions that occurred and teachers' perceptions of these interactions. While online meetings offer a partial solution to address the current demands of assessment in education, they also present new challenges as teachers meet, in an unfamiliar environment, to discuss student work. (Contains 1 figure.)

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2010

EJ903922