Equity Action Makers’ Assessment Projects: What Have We Learned Thus Far?

The Grand Challenges Project supports global collaborations informing equitable and evidence-informed practices for higher education assessment practitioners. The Grand Challenge’s Equity Action Makers Team conducted twenty interviews in 2023/2024 with assessment professionals across higher education disciplines and units to learn how they use assessment data to further equity. Initially using Bourdieu’s (1980) grounded theory, then considering Gee’s (2014) discourse analysis and Wenger’s (1998) communities of practice models, we examined the interviewee’s equity-based assessment practices in terms of how and which stakeholders are invited to the table, what equity-based assessment looks like in action, and how we know it is working.