{"id":173,"date":"2010-09-08T08:55:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T08:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=173"},"modified":"2010-09-08T08:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T08:56:00","slug":"dependability-the-one-handed-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Dependability &#8211; the one-handed clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is \u00a0my final post relating directly to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northumbria.ac.uk\/sd\/central\/ar\/academy\/cetl_afl\/earli2010\/\">Earli\/Northumbria Assessment Conference<\/a>. Well that&#8217;s a relief I hear you say. It was an amazing conference for me, coming at just the right time in my thinking about broader issues in assessment.<\/p>\n<p>This post continues the theme of &#8216;quality&#8217;. In the final keynote, instead of dealing separately with issues of validity, reliability, authenticity and manageability (in practical terms), Professor Gordon Stobart talked about a\u00a0&#8216;one handed clock&#8217; . You have to decide where in the 360-degree round\u00a0to place the one hand when construct validity, reliability and manageability are equally spaced (at 120 degree intervals) around it.\u00a0 This is a useful way of thinking, capturing the tensions I was trying to describe in my previous post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is \u00a0my final post relating directly to the Earli\/Northumbria Assessment Conference. Well that&#8217;s a relief I hear you say. It was an amazing conference for me, coming at just the right time in my thinking about broader issues in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=173\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[23,51,54,42,47,53,55,352,52],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quality","tag-authentic","tag-construct-validity","tag-dependability","tag-earlinorthumbria","tag-gordon-stobart","tag-manageability","tag-one-handed-clock","tag-quality","tag-reliability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}