Reflections and Reviews

 After the assessment and feedback on our blog posts from our peers, we delved into the same topic from a vocational and higher education perspective. The webinar on 2.11.2022 was more academically structured and provided us the opportunity to learn around the topical areas such as the link between learning theories and assessment methods, how different assessment methods work, what is the role of guidelines regulating education in assessment and feedback and lastly to develop an understanding around the goals and intended outcomes of assessment and feedback. Even though the discussion sessions followed a different flow in terms of topics discussed, for this post, I would reflect on first the guidelines, followed by the role of theories and then move on to discuss the common assessment and feedback methods and then the goals and intended outcomes of assessment and feedback. Reflection on Discussed Topics During the regulation discussion, we spent a significant amount of time learni

Research Policy The goal of Finland's higher education policy is to build higher education institutions that are internationally competitive while also responding flexibly to regional requirements. The achievements of these educational policy goals rely heavily on the research activities conducted in the vocational and higher education institutions. Such research activities are guided by the Finnish Science policy. The goal of science policy is to ensure that research organizations can do research in a manner and to a standard that is typical of highly competitive worldwide science communities. Science policy also contributes to the easy availability of researched information for widespread application in society. It is becoming a global trend to leverage digital and open approach methodologies to generate high-quality research more quickly and efficiently. Finland is actively involved in these developments. Further, the goal of science policy is to raise the international standard