Pedagogical Analytics

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Toward a Functional Analysis of Human Adaptation in the Service of Learning. This panel represents an effort to expand the field of educational assessment and analysis to privilege the development of ability as much as it has promoted the measurement of ability. This has been a continuous theme of Dr. Gordon’s life, ever since he began his career as a clinician conducting psychological testing of children in Brooklyn during the 1950’s, extending into his leadership of The Gordon Commission on the Future of Assessment for Education. This group advanced the notion that educational assessment can and should inform and improve learning and its teaching, as well as measure developed ability. This is a conversation among elders and younger scholars concerning a previously read draft of my monograph.

Sub Unit

• AERA Honorary President Edmund W. Gordon Series

Chair

• Edmund W. Gordon, Teachers College, Columbia University

Presenter

• Elham Zandvakili, Teachers College, Columbia University

Commentators

• Lorrie A. Shepard, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Paul G. LeMahieu, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

• Jennifer Randall, University of Michigan

• Temple Sharese Lovelace, Assessment for Good, AERDF

• Ernest Washington, University of Massachusetts - Amherst