The Challenges of Diversity, convened by Cesar Guadalupe, at University of the Pacific (Universidad del Pacífico), Lima.
Centro de Investigación de la Universidad del Pacífico
Supported by the Economic and Social Research Council, UK. (ESRC)
This seminar was held in Lima, 6-7 July 2015 Venue: Universidad del Pacífico.
Videos of the seminar presentations are available on the video tab above.
Programme:
This seminar focused on the challenges linguistic and cultural diversity poses to educational assessments that intend to produce information that is comparable across different languages and cultures. The discussion focused on the actual experiences of multilingual Latin American countries, as well as the criteria that is used for international assessment agencies to address these issues including the most recent developments in linguistic quality assurance of test instruments.
| Day | Time | Session | Room | |
| 6-July | 08.45 | Registration, welcome | H304 | |
| 09:15 | Opening | César Guadalupe | ||
| 09:30 | Introduction to the topic | Video presentation by R K Hambleton | ||
| 09:55 | First open and general exchange | Plenary | ||
| 10:20 | Break | |||
| 10:50 | The case of Mexico | Presentation by Humberto Rivera (INEE) | ||
| 11:20 | Open exchange on presentation | Plenary | ||
| 11:50 | Break (lunch) | |||
| 13:30 | The case of Peru | Presentation by Fernando Llanos (MoE) | ||
| 14:00 | Open exchange on presentation | Plenary | ||
| 14:30 | Break | |||
| 15:00 | Educational Prosperity: Contextual Data to Meet the Challenges of Diversity in International Assessments | Presentation by Robert Laurie (U of New Brunswick) | ||
| 15:30 | Open exchange on presentation | Plenary | ||
| 16:00 | End of day | |||
| 7-July | 09:00 | Linguistic quality assurance | Presentation by Steve Dept (cApStAn) | H404 |
| 09:30 | Open exchange on presentation | Plenary | ||
| 10:00 | Assessing reading across languages and scripts, European and otherwise: some lessons learnt | Manuel Cardoso (UNICEF) via video-link | ||
| 10:30 | Break | |||
| 11:00 | Open exchange on presentation | Plenary | ||
| 11:30 | Using real-life or fictional items: some potential issues. | Presentation by Julián Mariño (U de los Andes) | ||
| 12:00 | Open exchange on presentation | Plenary | ||
| 12:30 | Break (lunch) | |||
| 13:30 | Summarising the debates | Plenary led by César Guadalupe | ||
| 14:00 | Closing session | César Guadalupe and Camilla Addey | ||
| 14:30 | End of day |
Contact: Cesar Guadalupe, Lecturer/Researcher, Head of the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Universidad del Pacífico. CA.GuadalupeM@up.edu.pe; or Ms Roxana Castilla, Assistant to castilla_r@up.edu.pe
