Acknowledgements

This open source guide was developed as a capstone project for my graduate studies in health sciences education (MEdHSE).

I would like to thank my advisor, Mark Gierl for his guidance and support in this process. But mostly, I want to thank him for the gift of his enthusiasm for thinking about student assessment and what it means. I will never not question what a grade means or doesn’t mean and ask important questions about what a student might be capable of, regardless of their marks.

I would also like to thank my co-reader, Gail Crockford. Gail is a true innovator in the world of both healthcare and education. Her passion for teaching is infectious and I learned so much from our work together in how she both supported me, but encouraged me to step out of my comfort zone and try something new.

I am incredibly fortunate to live, work, and play in a land that provides for myself, family, friends and community. I commit to improving my stewardship for the land, in honour of the previous stewards, the Sinixt (Lakes), the Syilx (Okanagan), the Ktunaxa, and the Secwépemc (Shuswap) peoples.

Chris Hillary