Overview
- Addresses key issues that go to the heart of improving assessment, learning and teaching in universities
- Includes contributions from leading international assessment scholars
- Each contribution has been specially commissioned and represents the latest thinking on assessment
- While the authors focus on critical assessment concepts, they also spell out the implications of these ideas for university teachers and students
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
There has been a remarkable growth of interest in the assessment of student learning and its relation to the process of learning in higher education over the past ten years. This interest has been expressed in various ways – through large scale research projects, international conferences, the development of principles of assessment that supports learning, a growing awareness of the role of feedback as an integral part of the learning process, and the publication of exemplary assessment practices. At the same time, more limited attention has been given to the underlying nature of assessment, to the concerns that arise when assessment is construed as a measurement process, and to the role of judgement in evaluating the quality of students’ work. It is now timely to take stock of some of the critical concepts that underpin our understanding of the multifarious relationships between assessment and learning, and to explicate the nature of assessment as judgement. Despite the recent growth in interest noted above, assessment in higher education remains under-conceptualized. This book seeks to make a significant contribution to conceptualizing key aspects of assessment, learning and judgement.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Assessment, Learning and Judgement in Higher Education
Editors: Gordon Joughin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8905-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8904-6Published: 18 December 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8022-6Published: 15 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8905-3Published: 11 December 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 233