There's a discussion taking place on Learning Engineering revisiting a topic that comes up here from time to time: Anne Fensie writes, "we were only able to find an embarrassing small number of studies (159 from an initial pool of about 12,000 records) that actually reported on learning activities and objectively measured learning, with either quantitative or qualitative measures." My first question, of course, is "what are you even measuring?" and then "does anybody actually care about this particular measure?" In this article from NORRAG the authors "global education measurement systems as politically shaped frameworks that prioritize standardized, often Western and increasingly AI-driven metrics, narrowing what counts as learning and obscuring relational, contextual, and transformative dimensions. It calls for reimagining measurement as a community-led, context-sensitive practice."
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