Big Brother supports and supervises? Student experience of assessment in lower secondary school

Assessment has a big impact on learning and on students' experience of themselves and of school. In recent years, assessment and feedback have developed and increased. The Isoveli (Big Brother) project aims to understand what does the whole combination of assessment and feedback look like from the student's perspective.
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Project duration
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Core fields of research
Learning, teaching and interaction
Research areas
JYU.Edu
Funding
Kone Foundation

Project description

Isoveli (Big Brother) is an ethnographic research project in which the researcher goes on a year-long journey with a class of students to understand what assessment looks like from their point of view.

Assessment is a complex phenomenon with multiple purposes. The meanings of assessment are constructed through the interaction between people and their environment. This study aims to explore these meanings and their consequences.

Publications

Publication
2025

Kasvatus
Ketonen, Laura
Atjonen, Päivi
Publication
2025

Journal of Curriculum Studies
Ketonen, Laura
Nieminen, Juuso Henrik
Publication
2024

Teaching and Teacher Education
Ketonen
Laura
Nieminen
Juuso Henrik

Project team

Project leaders

Laura Ketonen

Laura Ketonen

Grant researcher, conducting grant-funded research