International Perspectives on Education and Assessment

How Culturally Intelligent are we? "Cultural Intelligence (CQ) is a person's ability to function effectively in situations characterized by cultural diversity" (Ang, Van Dyne & Koh, 2005; Earley & Ang, 2003; Earley & Mosakowski, 2005).

PISA - Measuring student success around the world

International Perspectives on Education LDC / Assessment DCL Week 9

Case Study: Finland (quiz hosted by our tutor Milla). We played an interactive quiz created in Kahoot! which encouraged us to competitively test our prior knowledge about Finland (I was even coming third til my browser crashed... and Janet came 2nd overall, just behind Dr Dave who'd prepped for the test from the previous session)...

Group Activity

What does assessment heaven vs.hell look like? Our thoughts:

Collaborative Activity 

We had been set a collaborative assignment - to select one key item that ensures strong outcomes for our learners when looking at the research out there. Desire', Michelle and I looked at the commonalities between Canada, Singapore and Canada. We decided that treating teachers as valued professional in a society was what made the most consistent positive effect for these nations when ranking them on the PISA scale. Here's the video Michelle, Desire' and I created to show what the news might look like in the year 2020 were this to become the case in NZ, too...

*Newsflash 2020*

Research Tips

Go into your Moodle portal - go to your dashboard, stack of books bottom left, click on these, will open up Unitec Library screen - automatically logs you in from there...