Lindsay Valve
PhD
Biography
Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning (Expected: 2022)
Lindsay is a doctoral student in OISE’s Curriculum Studies and Teacher Development program at the University of Toronto. She holds an Honours BSc. in Psychology from the University of Toronto, and a Master of Arts in Curriculum from OISE. Her M.A. research focused on the cognitive strategies employed during self-assessment, and their impacts on assessment validity. Lindsay has a consulting practice in the areas of performance, evaluation and impact. Living at the intersection of data, design and human insights, she helps organizations understand the ways our bias toward the quantifiable comes at the expense of people (and profits), and how to fix it. Lindsay is interested in differential understandings of validity, how they shape our (mis)use of assessment, and examining what assessment is doing to understand its generative potential.