Bias-aware teaching, learning and assessment / Donna Hurford, Andrew Read.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hurford, Donna, author.

Read, Andrew, author.

Series:

Critical Practice in Higher Education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (102 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

England : Critical Publishing, [2022]

Summary:

With the spotlight on diversity and inclusion, this book offers university teachers informed and practical strategies for raising awareness of bias in teaching, learning and assessment practices and provides approaches to eliminate, limit and mitigate the negative effects of bias on university students.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Acknowledgements

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Meet the authors and series editors

Book summary

Chapter 1 Introduction

Why this book?

Why write it collaboratively and why us?

Who is this book for?

Why coaching dialogues and why this structure?

What is this book about?

A note on terminology

A note on our approach to referencing

Critical questions for practice

Summary

Useful texts

Chapter 2 Interactions

Introduction

Theoretical background

Interaction

Example 2.1

Example 2.2

Types of bias

Law of the instrument

Explicit stereotyping

Bias blind spot

The IKEA effect

Confirmation bias

Using dialogue to identify bias in interaction

The dialogue: context and structure

Unpacking the dialogue

Critical issues

Strategies to address biases in interactions

'What do you mean? I don't understand'

'I don't want to ask simple questions in case everyone thinks I'm stupid'

'I prefer to work with my friends, other students' English isn't so good'

Example 2.3

'I can see some students don't interact much during group work'

Example 2.4

'When I meet someone new, I pause and try flipping my perceptions'

Universal Design for Learning

Chapter 3 Course design and content

Example 3.1

Status quo educational bias

Authority bias

Using dialogue to identify bias in course design

Strategies to address biases in course design and content

Checklists

Decolonising the curriculum

Universal Design

Student consultation partnership

Example 3.2

A connected curriculum.

Interdisciplinary approaches: time to rethink

Chapter 4 Learning activities

Group work: sameness or novelty?

Example 4.1

Example 4.2

Example 4.3

Strategies to address biases in learning activities

How can students optimise their learning through learning activities?

Should we always share LOs?

What's the purpose of a learning activity - the learning process or the learning activity's product?

How can learning activities offer ways to develop graduate skills and competencies?

How can learning activities help challenge stereotypes?

How can learning activities support threshold concepts?

What if students are responsible for resourcing learning activities?

Chapter 5 Assessment

The curse of knowledge

Functional fixedness

Using dialogue to identify bias in approaches to assessment

Strategies to address biases in assessment

Designing course assessment

Choosing the fairest assessment method

Example 5.1

Clarifying and practising assessment expectations

When marking written assignments

Using checklists or rubrics when marking written assignments

When assessing through presentations and oral exams

Example 5.2

When assessing group assignments

When assessing portfolios

Marking under pressure

Co-assessing with internal or external examiners

Summary.

Useful texts

Chapter 6 Structural and institutional biases

Example 6.1

Using dialogue to identify structural and institutional bias

Dialogue: context and structure

Example 6.2

Strategies to address structural and institutional biases

Cross-faculty marking dialogues

Closing the attainment gap

Bias and artificial intelligence

Call for HEIs to take the lead addressing bias

Chapter 7 Addressing interconnecting biases

Using dialogue to identify a web of biases

Dialogue as a tool to address multiple challenges

Strategies to address interconnecting biases

At an individual level

At a team level

At an institutional level

Concluding remarks

Useful links

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-04-037591-X

1-04-105446-7

1-04-037319-4

1-914171-90-X

9781041054467

OCLC:

1315649871