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Special Interest Group

Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy

To encourage and support research and other scholarly activity in the inter-related areas of curriculum, assessment and pedagogy across the 4 nations of the UK and internationally.

One of the aspirations of the SIG is to re-ignite curriculum studies as a broad field. Examples of such work include attention to the important inter-relationship between these three ‘message systems’, for example the growing influence of assessment on curricula internationally, and attempts by governments and their agencies to prescribe pedagogy, in addition to curriculum, and assessment.

Research interests 

  • historical, theoretical and ideological influences on CAP;
  • the impact of globalisation, policy borrowing, and nation state control;
  • teacher and pupil agency;
  • knowledge and teachers’ knowledge practices
  • action research and practice;
  • alternative visions of curriculum, assessment and pedagogy for the 21st century
  • Public understanding of assessment;
  • Ethics and assessment;
  • Educational testing – nationally and globally.

Aims:

The intention is to hold seminars, workshops and other regular meetings in order to share knowledge; plan presentations; develop networks to support publications and research proposals; and engage where possible with relevant policy and practitioner communities.

 

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SIG Convenors

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Weipeng Yang, Dr

Associate Professor at The Education University of Hong Kong

Weipeng Yang, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in early childhood education and a recipient of the President’s Outstanding Performance in Research Award at The Education University of Hong Kong. As one of the world's top 2% most-cited...

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Mary Richardson, Professor

Professor of Educational Assessment at University College London

Mary is Professor of Educational Assessment in the Dept for Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment at UCL Institute of Education in London. She teaches on the MA in Assessment and supervises doctoral students interested in assessment, ethics and...

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