Stirring Minds Series

Stirring Minds is a speaking series free and open to all, featuring esteemed academics visiting UBC’s Okanagan campus.

The sessions have led to several collaborative projects involving keynote speakers and Faculty members from UBC’s Okanagan campus. Stirring Minds was launched in 2010-11.

Keynote speakers from various backgrounds present their scholarly work to engage participating audiences about emerging issues and new ideas in education. They introduce and encourage innovative approaches to research, and generate discussion about significant initiatives in progress.

UPCOMING STIRRING MINDS SPEAKERS

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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Professor Geoff Norman
Student Assessment: What Works, What Doesn't

When: 1:00pm-3:00pm
Where: Centre for Research on Mindful Engagement  (EME 3124)

This workshop will review various approaches to assessment, with a view to using the evidence about reliability and validity to make informed choices among different methods.  Professor Norman will discuss methods both old (essay, multiple choice, global ratings) and new (Case-based decision-making, performance assessment) and examine a) whether each is effective (reliable and valid) in assessing students, and b) what are the important underlying characteristics that contribute to its effectiveness. Participants should, at the end of the workshop, have a better understanding of how to design an assessment system.

Geoff Norman is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University. He received a B.Sc. in physics from the University of Manitoba in 1965 and a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from McMaster University in 1971, and subsequently a M.A. in educational psychology from Michigan State University in 1977. He is the author of 10 books in education, measurement and statistics, and over 200 journal articles. His primary research interest is in cognitive psychology applied to problems of learning and reasoning. He has also been involved in student assessment, and has made substantial contributions to assessment methodology. He presently holds a Canada Research Chair. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2007. In 2008, he won the prestigious Karolinska Prize for lifetime achievement in medical education research.

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