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Ensuring the continuum of learning: The role of assessment for lifelong learning

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Author	Su, Yahui
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	This article explores how assessment plays a role in helping learners to learn on a continuous, sustainable basis. It begins by exploring the paradigm of lifelong learning, which implies a shift in the way we think about learning and knowledge. Based on knowledge formation rooted in a flux of learning, lifelong learning assessment is not so much the assessment of how much fixed knowledge learners possess but rather the assessment of learners’ abilities to reconstruct knowledge and engage with change. This article argues that three concerns – the primacy of self-assessment, the assessment of learners’ engagement, and the importance of qualitative assessment – are crucial to an assessment which contributes to the development of lifelong learners who have the continuing ability to grow and to find deep and meaningful connections during times of change. The importance of self-assessment as the central aspect of lifelong learning is presented, and the way in which self-assessment relates to formative assessment and summative assessment to ensure a valid development of lifelong learning is considered. Judging whether lifelong learning is relevant or desirable requires learners’ engagement in considering how they are holistically related to the world. To assess learners’ overall engagement, this article suggests a multi-faceted, holistic approach which emphasises qualitative methods to track each individual’s learning situation, although quantitative methods are not rejected. It is hoped that the article’s discussion of this lifelong learning assessment will contribute to an understanding of the assessment’s appropriate nature and development.Garantir la continuité de l’apprentissage : le rôle de l’évaluation dans l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie – Cet article explore le rôle que joue l’évaluation pour aider l’apprenant à accomplir un apprentissage permanent et durable. L’auteure analyse tout d’abord le concept de l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie, qui implique un changement dans notre façon de concevoir l’apprentissage et le savoir. Fondée sur la formation du savoir émanant d’un flux d’apprentissage, l’évaluation de l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie est moins celle de la quantité de connaissances immuables acquises par l’apprenant, que celle de ses capacités à les reconstituer et à susciter un changement. L’auteure avance que trois aspects – la primauté de l’auto-évaluation, l’appréciation de l’engagement de l’apprenant et l’importance de l’évaluation qualitative – sont indispensables à une évaluation qui contribue au développement de l’apprenant permanent, doté d’une capacité continue à évoluer et à découvrir des liens riches et denses au cours de cette évolution. Elle signale ensuite l’importance de l’auto-évaluation, élément central de l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie, et le moyen de relier cette dernière à l’évaluation formative et sommative pour garantir un développement efficace de l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie. La question de savoir si ce dernier est pertinent ou souhaitable requiert de l’apprenant la démarche de réfléchir à ses rapports systémiques avec le monde. Afin d’apprécier l’engagement global de l’apprenant, l’auteure propose une approche pluridimensionnelle et systémique qui favorise les méthodes qualitatives pour retracer la situation éducative individuelle, sans rejeter pour autant les méthodes quantitatives. Enfin, elle exprime l’espoir de voir cette analyse sur l’évaluation de l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie contribuer à cerner une forme et une évolution appropriées de l’évaluation.確保學習的永續:終身學習評量的角色– 這篇文章探討評量如何幫助學習者永續學習。文章一開始探討終身學習典範,及其意味我們對學習和知識的想法轉變。基於知識被視為從學習變流中形成,終身學習評量不再是評量學習者擁有多少固定知識,而是評量學習者重建知識與投入改變的能力。這篇文章關注自我評量的優位$_{、}$評量學習者的投入$_{、}$以及質性評量的重要,此三方面有助發展終身學習者持續成長的能力,以及在變動時代中找到意義連結的能力。作者呈現自我評量做為終身學習中心的重要性,以及自我評量方式如何透過連結形成性評量和總結性評量,以確保終身學習有效發展。終身學習需要學習者投入他們與世界整體的關係。為了評量學習者的投入,本文提出多面向整體方法,即雖然量化方法有其重要,更強調運用質性方法去發現個別學習者的學習情況。透過這篇文章的討論,有助瞭解終身學習評量的性質與發展。
Starting Page	7
Ending Page	20
Page Count	14
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00208566
Journal	International Review of Education
Volume Number	61
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15730638
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-02-21
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Lifelong learning Assessment Engagement Self-assessment International and Comparative Education Education (general)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education E-learning

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