AERC Seminar: Teacher's feedback to students in the past, present and future.

Join the Assessment Research Centre within the Faculty of Education for this compelling research seminar hosting Prof. Gamlem and Prof. Brandmo.  They they will give a brief review of their background and previous work before diving into rich discussions and sharing of ideas from an ongoing project on teachers’ feedback and students’ uptake of feedback.

Tuesday 24 October, 12-1pm, 100 Leicester Street, Level 9, Conference Room 915

'One challenge is related to teachers’ ability to adapt to the content, level, and strategies to students' individual needs, and another is related to students' ability to understand and adopt the message and transform it into actions. Finally, Gamlem and Brandmo will put a critical lens on how artificial intelligence (AI) may affect assessment and feedback practices.'

Professor Siv Gamlem is a Professor of Education at the Faculty of Humanities and Teacher Education at Volda University College, Norway. Gamlem's main interest is related to the professional development of teachers, supervision at the PhD level, teacher training, and last but not least, assessment, with a particular focus on the pedagogical aspects of assessment. In addition to being a researcher, Gamlem is also a teacher at the Teacher Education programme in Volda. She has extensive experience as a teacher in primary and secondary school. For most of these years, she also worked as a teacher educator and partner in professional development at the university level. Gamlem defended her doctorate, "Feedback as a support for pupils' learning in secondary school", in 2014.

From 2007-2020, Gamlem was an advisor for the Norwegian Directorate of Education in their implementation of formative assessment practices and the national school development program "Assessment for Learning". During 2018-2020, she was appointed by the Norwegian Ministry of Education to assist in the work of investigating a comprehensive system for examinations and the new curriculum reform in secondary school and upper secondary education. Recently, Gamlem has been appointed by the Government of Norway to be a member of "The Screen Use Committee" (2023-2024). The mandate of the committee is to collect knowledge and make proposals to the government about children's/young people's (0-19 years old) use of digital devices in daycare, school, and leisure. Currently, Gamlem is involved in the research project "Artificial intelligence for assessment for learning" (2022-2025), a project funded by the Norwegian Research Council. Since starting her academic career, she has published several articles, book chapters and books.

Professor Christian Brandmo is a Professor of Educational Psychology and Quantitative Methods at the Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo. His research interests particularly relate to how different types of beliefs, motivation, and metacognition affect learning processes. Christian has been working on topics such as beginning teachers' job motivation, school leadership, leadership development, reading motivation and comprehension, students' epistemic beliefs, test anxiety, and self-regulated learning.

Currently, he's leading a project intended to evaluate aspects of the new national curriculum launched in 2020. This project examines cohorts of students and teachers and focuses on learning/teaching approaches (e.g., deep learning) and the three interdisciplinary themes of life skills, citizenship, and sustainability that are particularly emphasised in the new curriculum. In addition, Christian is affiliated with the Centre for Research on Special Needs Education and Inclusive Practices (SpedAims) where he participates in a project that examines content and structures of interprofessional collaboration (parents, school, educational-psychological service, health, and child welfare) around children with special needs.