How does the pursuit of transparency and insight have a tendency to produce secrecy? And vice versa? In popular political discourse, secrecy are usually depicted as mutually exclusive practices. At same time, we know from extant research that two closely related, they each performative effects, tend encroach on other. The inseparability dynamics between two, however, remains be unfolded. This c...

Assessment task design plays a major role in influencing how students engage with their studies. This paper uses a case study approach to explore the assessment practice of five award-winning teachers across five different disciplines. The research method involved ethnographically-oriented classroom observations and multiple interviews with participants. Four key features of assessment task des...

This research illustrates the efficacy of a new approach for collecting and analyzing family conversational data at museums and other informal settings. This article offers a detailed examination of a small data set (three families) that informs a larger body of work that focuses on conversation as methodology. The dialogic content of this work centers on biological themes, specifically adaptat...