A comprehensive guide to assessment issues, particularly for those professionals coming to terms with the range of new pressures on their traditional teaching practices. The authors analyse traditional methods and offer suggestions for how they may be developed to suit modern learning and teaching practice. The book is intended as a practical resource, with reflection boxes and diagnostic tools that encourage readers to apply the principles to their own practice.

Research has indicated that assessment is a key factor in student learning. This book details the issues of assessment in the open and distance learning field, where changes in budgets, the location and environment of the students and other factors have prompted innovations in assessment.