Rethinking assessment in higher education : learning for the longer term / edited by David Boud and Nancy Falchikov.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boud, David.

Falchikov, Nancy, 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College students--Rating of.

College students.

Educational tests and measurements.

Physical Description:

vi, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Summary:

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 teaching, learning and assessment to better prepare students for a lifetime of learning. It is essential reading for practitioners and policy makers in higher education institutions in different countries, as well as for educational development and institutional research practitioners.

Contents:

1 Introduction: assessment for the longer term / David Boud, Nancy Falchikov 3

2 Reframing assessment as if learning were important / David Boud 14

Part 2 The context of assessment 27

3 Assessment in higher education: an impossible mission? / Ronald Barnett 29

4 Learning assessment: students' experiences in post-school qualifications / Kathryn Ecclestone 41

Part 3 Themes 55

5 Contradictions of assessment for learning in institutions of higher learning / Steinar Kvale 57

6 Grading, classifying and future learning / Peter Knight 72

7 Assessment engineering: breaking down barriers between teaching and learning, and assessment / Filip Dochy, Mien Segers, David Gijbels, Katrien Struyven 87

8 Towards more sustainable feedback to students / Dai Hounsell 101

9 Conceptions of self-assessment: what is needed for long-term learning? / Kelvin Tan 114

10 The place of peers in learning and assessment / Nancy Falchikov 128

11 Assessment and emotion: the impact of being assessed / Nancy Falchikov, David Boud 144

Part 4 The practice of assessment 157

12 Writing about practice for future learning / Peter Kandlbinder 159

13 The contribution of sustainable assessment to teachers' continuing professional development / Margaret Kirkwood 167

14 Developing assessment for informing judgement / David Boud, Nancy Falchikov 181.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415397782

9780415397780

0415397790

9780415397797

0203964306

9780203964309

OCLC:

71044319