More on Badges and Assessment

With apologies to psychometricians who may read, let me set some vernacular context for additional thoughts (prompted originally by Dan Hickey‘s, and then Alex Halavais’, writing) regarding my own thinking on badges and assessment. It is beyond argument that we cannot crack open a learner’s head, insert a magnifying glass, and make direct, error-free observations … Read more

Badges Are NOT Assessments

I believe we need to be very careful in the way we talk about badges. Badges are not assessments. A badge is something you receive after you successfully complete an assessment. The actual assessment could take the form of generic multiple-choice questions, a performance assessment, a portfolio evaluation, a construct-aligned bundle of context-dependent items, or … Read more

On the Term “MOOC”

Audrey has a nice piece today on problems with the term MOOC. I’ve always passionately hated the MOOC acronym, mostly because of one of the words behind it. There was never anything massive about what we were doing until the Stanford AI class came along. Nothing that has come out of the original group (Wiley, … Read more