2023/03/31 by Richard Kimbell, Kimbell, Richard · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Assessment #Education and Technology Integration #Higher Education Learning Practices #Innovation #Reflective Practices in Education #Risk-taking #Virtual portfolios #e-scape
paper · doi:10.24377/dteij.article1125
openalex publication_date 2023/03/31 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01
It has become increasingly evident over the last few years that a number of pressures have combined to reduce learners’ innovative performance at GCSE in design and technology. ‘Playing safe’ with tightly teachermanaged projects has been seen to be a formula for schools guaranteed A-C pass rates. The first research project described here outlines an approach developed in TERU at Goldsmiths College to shift the balance of assessment in favour of learners who can demonstrate innovative, risk-taking performance. At the successful conclusion of this first project, we were invited to explore theextent to which the approach we had developed could be made to work with digital tools and result in virtual portfolios. This second project ‘e-scape’ is now in a second phase of development and will result in school trials in June and July 2006. It has profound messages for the future not only of design and technology, but also of performance assessment more generally