Dancing with COVID: Choreographing Examinations in Pandemic Times

Autor/inn/en	Alarcón López, Cristina; Decuypere, Mathias; Dey, Joyeeta; Gorur, Radhika; Hamilton, Mary; Lundahl, Christian; Sundström Sjödin, Elin
Titel	Dancing with COVID: Choreographing Examinations in Pandemic Times
Quelle	In: European Educational Research Journal, 20 (2021) 4, S.403-422 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Decuypere, Mathias) ORCID (Sundström Sjödin, Elin)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1474-9041
DOI	10.1177/14749041211022130
Schlagwörter	COVID-19; Pandemics; Student Evaluation; Testing; Higher Education; Foreign Countries; Evaluation Methods; School Closing; Computer Assisted Testing; Disease Control; Educational Technology; Technology Uses in Education; Barriers; Cultural Differences; Teacher Role; Student Role; Emergency Programs; At Risk Students; Access to Computers; Internet; College Students; College Faculty; Australia; Belgium; Chile; India; Sweden; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Testdurchführung; Testen; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ausland; School closings; Schule; Schließung; Schließung (von Schulen); Unterrichtsmedien; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Kultureller Unterschied; Lehrerrolle; Hilfsprogramm; Collegestudent; Fakultät; Australien; Belgien; Indien; Schweden; Großbritannien
Abstract	In this paper, we explore the improvisations made in examination practices in higher education during the pandemic of 2020. Drawing on STS, we start from the theoretical assumption that examinations constitute an obligatory passage point in universities and colleges: a sacred point which students need to pass if they want to gain recognized qualifications. We base our analysis of higher education examinations on cases from six countries around the world: Australia, Belgium, Chile, India, Sweden and the UK. We use the analytical heuristic of choreography to follow the movements, tensions and resistance of the 'emergency examinations' as well as the re-orderings of actors and stages that have inevitably occurred. In our analytical stories we see the interplay between the maintenance of fixed and sacred aspects of examinations and the fluidity of improvisations aimed at meeting threats of spreading COVID-19. These measures have forced the complex network of examinations both to reinforce some conventional actors and to assemble new actors and stages, thus creating radically new choreographies. Although higher education teaching and didactics are being framed as a playground for pedagogical innovation with digital technologies, it is clear from our data that not all educational activities can be so easily replicated. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01