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Recognising teachers' emotions and self-efficacy in assessment

Thursday, 21st August 2025 - 11:30 to 13:00
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Timezone: 

Dublin (IST, UTC+1)

Venue: 

Room 115 TCDBS

Session type: 
Type 4: Organised, planned and delivered by an external group without input from ADEE
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Session synopsis: 
Even though the feelings of students have been widely discussed, there is little research about emotions of the teachers related to assessment in higher education. 

The aim of this workshop is to target teachers’ emotions related to assessment, their variability and strength and together within the group find ways to cope with them and hopefully grow from them.

The focus is on collaborating and creating solutions together after a short introduction to the subject, based partly on our own research. The workshop will mostly be guided groupwork about emotions; what causes them, what do we learn from them and sharing with others to find new ways of reflection and coping with negative feelings as well as growing from the positive ones.

Programme: 

The DAPHNE - Developing Assessment Practices in Higher Education research group was established in University of Helsinki 2013 as a research and development group. Members of the research group are from different fields of sciences: medicine and health sciences, natural sciences, humanities and social sciences.

The aim of the research group is to study and develop assessment practices in higher education with multidicipline research questions.

Chair: 

Terhi Susanna Karaharju-Suvanto

University Lecturer and clinical instructor in Orthodontics
Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland

Terhi Susanna Karaharju-Suvanto works presently as a coordinating University Lecturer and as a clinical instructor in Orthodontics in Department of Oral and Maxillofacial diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland.

She graduated as a dentist in 1989, acquired her PhD in Odontology in1996 and received her speciality in Orthodontics in 1999, all in University of Helsinki. She has also a Special competence in dental education in 2011 and has a degree in pedagogy. In 2012 she received the Excellence in Dental Education, Mature Educator Award from ADEE and in 2013 she was appointed to the The University of Helsinki Teachers’ Academy.

She has been a full time teacher since 1999 in various positions within dental education and is a popular teacher in continuing professional development. She has been involved in two EU projects about dental education. She has worked on assessment in national and international projects, such defining the national competencies for gradating dentists in Finland and the clinical assessment group of ADEE.

Her latest research has been about dental education, and her main interests are assessment and competencies. She has 15 original publications about dental education.

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