Assessment is a value-laden activity surrounded by debates about academic standards, preparing students for employment, measuring quality and providing incentives. There is substantial evidence that assessment, rather than teaching, has the major influence on students' learning. It directs attention to what is important and acts as an incentive for study.
This book revisits assessment in higher education, examining it from the point of view of what assessment does and can do and argues that assessment should be seen as an act of informing judgement and proposes a way of integrating...
Assessment is a value-laden activity surrounded by debates about academic standards, preparing students for employment, measuring quality and provi...
This fascinating book draws on the expertise of those currently making a stimulating contribution to the literature on doctoral education. Questions are posed about the purposes of doctoral study and how it is changing.
This fascinating book draws on the expertise of those currently making a stimulating contribution to the literature on doctoral education. Question...
Using Experience for Learning reflects current interest in the importance of experience in informal and formal learning, whether it be applied for course credit, new forms of learning in the workplace, or acknowledging autonomous learning outside educational institutions.
Using Experience for Learning reflects current interest in the importance of experience in informal and formal learning, whether it be applied for cou...
Consisting of contributions from diverse range of international authorities in the areas of management, education, organizational psychology and sociology, this book draws on examples from work settings in Europe, the Middle East, North America and Australia. It also emphasizes on productivity combined with lived experience of work life.
Consisting of contributions from diverse range of international authorities in the areas of management, education, organizational psychology and socio...
Assessment is a value-laden activity surrounded by debates about academic standards, preparing students for employment, measuring quality and providing incentives. There is substantial evidence that assessment, rather than teaching, has the major influence on students learning. It directs attention to what is important and acts as an incentive for study.
This book revisits assessment in higher education, examining it from the point of view of what assessment does and can do and argues that assessment should be seen as an act of informing judgement and proposes a way of integrating...
Assessment is a value-laden activity surrounded by debates about academic standards, preparing students for employment, measuring quality and provi...
Learners complain that they do not get enough feedback, and educators resent that although they put considerable time into generating feedback, students take little notice of it. Both parties agree that it is very important.
Feedback in Higher and Professional Education explores what needs to be done to make feedback more effective. It examines the problem of feedback and suggests that there is a lack of clarity and shared meaning about what it is and what constitutes doing it well. It argues that new ways of thinking about feedback are needed.
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Learners complain that they do not get enough feedback, and educators resent that although they put considerable time into generating feedback, stu...
