From Policy to Practice

Means:

• Resisting bureaucratic solutions
• recognising uncertainty, change
• interpretation rather than reproduction
• negotiation rather than transmission
• system and team rather than individualism
• judgement rather than exact calculation

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In order to capture the real experience we have to avoid the bureaucratic slide into ‘covering one’s back’ by leaving legally watertight but educationally meaningless audit trails. This involves a transformation of the cultures that have arisen to cope w

I think the only way that you can really look at it is actually to observe it happening (-) it’s much easier to do than to talk about it

However, it depends on the purpose of assessment as to whether it is 'easier to do than to talk about it'. Assessment can be designed for many purposes. How do we design it, or make it work, for educational purposes alone?