Ipsative assessment : motivation through marking progress.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hughes, Gwyneth, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational tests and measurements.

Physical Description:

vii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Motivation through marking progress

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

Ipsative assessment is a powerful and under-used approach that provokes a new way of thinking about the purposes and methods of assessment. Competitive assessment is the cornerstone of meritocracy in a fast-adapting society and is widely supported, but there is a price to pay: many learners are not personally and academically fulfilled in selective assessment regimes. Ipsative assessment means making a comparison with self rather than others - marking progress, not just products. Not all learners can be top performers, but all learners can potentially make progress and achieve a personal best. Putting the focus onto learning rather than meeting standards and criteria can also be resource efficient. While not arguing that competitive assessment should be completely replaced, this book explores how a dual system for combining ipsative assessment and selective assessment already exists in the supervision of projects, dissertations and theses. The management and implementation of assessment reform is then considered from a distributed leadership perspective illustrated with an institutional case study. Ipsative assessment may sound utopian, but Gwyneth Hughes shows that in fact it could be used in any educational context to make assessment as enjoyable and rewarding as teaching. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 A Fresh Look at Assessment 1

Part I The Effects of Competition on Assessment: Making a Case for Ipsative Assessment

2 The Purposes of Assessment: Competition and Social Selection 15

3 Assessment for Learning: In the Shadows? 33

4 The Effects of Competition on Assessment for Learning 53

5 Exploring Ipsative Assessment 71

6 Making the Case for Ipsative Assessment: Assessment for Learning Revisited 92

Part II Ipsative Assessment in Practice: Challenges and Visions

7 Two Case Studies of Ipsative Assessment in Academic Settings 113

8 A Dual Systems Model of Assessment: Lessons from Doctoral Supervision 139

9 Leading Innovation and Change in Educational Settings: The Challenges of Assessment Reform 162

10 Institutional Case Study of Innovation in Assessment 180

11 Ipsative Assessment As a Feasible Utopia 200.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-223) and index.

ISBN:

1137267216

9781137267214

OCLC:

867012925