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This book is a comprehensive guide to assessment issues, particularly for those professionals who are coming to terms with the range of new pressures on their traditional teaching practices. Agents of change such as increased use of IT, flexible assessment methods and quality assurance all converge on the area of assessment, making new demands of assessors. The authors analyse the effectiveness of traditional methods in the present day and provide suggestions for how these methods may be developed to suit modern learning and teaching practice. This book is a practical resource, with reflection boxes and diagnostic tools that encourage the reader to apply the principles to their own practice. Throughout, the text emphasizes the need to diversify and adapt and takes an international perspective.
This book is a comprehensive guide to assessment issues, particularly for those professionals who are coming to terms with the range of new pressures on their traditional teaching practices. Agents of change such as increased use of IT, flexible assessment methods and quality assurance all converge on the area of assessment, making new demands of assessors. The authors analyse the effectiveness of traditional methods in the present day and provide suggestions for how these methods may be developed to suit modern learning and teaching practice. This book is a practical resource, with reflection boxes and diagnostic tools that encourage the reader to apply the principles to their own practice. Throughout, the text emphasizes the need to diversify and adapt and takes an international perspective.
Part A: Issues and themes in assessment 1. The link between assessment and learning 2. Roles and purposes of assessment 3. The grading game: norm- and criterion-referenced assessment 4. Valid assessment 5. Assessing in flexible modes 6. Assessing with new technology 7. Assessing with new technology 8. Assessing in diverse contexts 8. Assessing larger cohorts 9. Academic fraud and plagiarism 10. Maintaining standards in a consumer market 11. Accountability and the quality agenda: evaluative purposes of assessment Part B: Assessing key learning outcomes 12. Communicating 13. Assessing and managing information 14. Demonstrating knowledge and understanding 15. Demonstrating procedures and techniques 16. Designing, creating, performing 17. Thinking critically and making judgements 18 Problem solving 19. Managing and developing oneself Part C. Assessment in practice 20. Designing assessment tasks 21. Developing marking schemes 22. Communicating assessment tasks 23. Marking and grading 24. Evaluating assessment practices 25. Dealing with plagiarism
Lee Dunn, Chris Morgan, Meg O'Reilly and Sharon Parry all work at the Southern Cross University, Australia, where Chris Morgan is Educational Designer at the Teaching and Learning Centre.
'Good examples, case studies, activities and so on ... help readers keep in focus.' - BJET 35(6)
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