Toward Assessment Utopias w/Juuso Nieminen

There will be failures. And then we just need to think about how we will orient ourselves to those failures. I see them as wonderful learning experiences I can have together with students.

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Dr. Juuso Nieminen is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong and a Banting Fellow at Ontario Tech University, Canada. He studies the social, cultural, and political aspects of assessment. Why do we assess the way we do? Dr. Nieminen’s research focuses on the student perspective in assessment. He is particularly interested in how assessment shapes students’ identities in higher education and beyond. Dr Nieminen has also examined the matters of disability inclusion and accessibility in assessment.

Other resources:

• Toward assessment utopias! A call for educational activism to address the issues of power in grading (blog post co-written with Chris Dite)

• Assessment for Inclusion: rethinking inclusive assessment in higher education (Journal of Higher Education)

• www.juusonieminen.com

• On Twitter @JuusoNieminen