Thinking about assignments & assessment

Behind a course, underneath its design, are fundamental questions. Essential, quintessential matters; pedagogical and existential. What’s the point of an assignment? Of assessment? Of a course? Of a university education in the literate humanities? Of learning? What are we doing? Who, where, when, how, why?

Here is some older writing from my main blog, ten years’ attempts to think through assignments and assessment, or—”staying with the trouble”—at least to think at and around them.

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