Mission
Our CERC focuses on integrating I-EDIAA through collaborative and community-engaged scholarship on Assessment, Evaluation, Leadership and Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) across Early Years, K-12, and Higher Education sectors. We acknowledge that educational assessment and evaluation have been a historical and current source of systemic discrimination, exclusion and a barrier to social progression for many students and communities. We recognize that, when used appropriately and sensitively, assessment and evaluation has the power to support leadership structures, improve policy, guide practice and lead to more equitable outcomes in education while propelling learning forward for diverse students and communities. This CERC builds on the Assessment and Evaluation Group’s (AEG) proven track record of collaborative scholarship that engages diverse partners (policymakers, practitioners, industry, community organizations) to conduct and apply innovative research with the goal of advancing equitable approaches to assessment, evaluation, and knowledge mobilization for social change. Established in 2002, the Assessment and Evaluation Group (AEG) leverages a collaborative approach to scholarship to engage in innovative research with the goal of contributing to new knowledge in assessment, evaluation, and knowledge mobilization. Our research, services, and educational programming are all directed at promoting learning and improving educational systems through rigorous research and effective community engagement.
Partners & Projects
Amplifying Community-Engaged Scholarship through Research on a Co-Hort of Extended Experiential Learning Internships led by Drs. Michelle Searle and Amanda Cooper builds off Initial partnerships developed as part of QEVal, a joint university, transdisciplinary initiative to promote community-engaged and experiential evaluation education. QEval is offered in collaboration with the Evaluation Capacity Network focusing on collaboratively develop community-driven and culturally relevant approaches for producing and using evidence to improve practice, programs, and policy towards system effectiveness.
Mentoring for Wellbeing in Teacher Education led by Dr. Benjamin Kutsyuruba, builds off the data collected as part of the pan-Canadian study on Wellbeing Capacity in Teacher Education Programs. The purpose is to understand the role of mentoring for enhancing the wellbeing capacity of pre-service teachers. This project is conducted along with International Mentoring Association (IMA), a non-profit organization of which Dr. Kutsyuruba is a President-Elect. One of the key areas of focus for the IMA has been exploring wellbeing as one of the outcomes of mentoring – an area in which there is an empirical research gap.
Past community engaged and social change activities undertaken by CERC members
Assessment Strategies in Higher Education (Curriculum Design Project: Micro-credential). Funded through e-Campus Ontario (Government of Ontario), this project worked to co-develop an online course focussed on assessment strategies in higher education.
Summit on Equity, Assessment and Evaluation in Education: Bringing Theory and Practice together. The event is designed to bring together academic and industry partners across Canada to focus on assessment and evaluation practices that promote a welcoming, fair, and equitable practices all students, regardless of their background or identity. This summit will serve as a shared, common Canadian perspective intended to impact the assessment and evaluation landscape.
Partnering to support and scale up assessment efforts of refugee-led early childhood education programs in emergencies. Kristy Timmons and Aurelia Di Santo (Toronto Metropolitan University) received a SSHRC PEG for this research. This collaborative study is beign done in partnership with iACT, an international organization that provides humanitarian action to support and empower those affected by mass atrocities and is currently experiencing challenges assessing their early childhood education programs.
Members
Chris DeLuca; Saad Chahine; Kristy Timmons; Michelle Searle; Benjamin Kutsyuruba
Connect with us!
Our research is directed at promoting learning and improving educational systems through rigourous inquiries and contemporary knowledge translation. Community partners, researchers and students interested in collaborative practices for assessment, evaluation and measurement to promote social change are encouraged to contact Michelle Searle.