ABSTRACT

This text provides an aid to those in further and higher education concerned with making assessment fair, reliable, valid, efficient and effective. It contains advice for experienced and novice assessors.

chapter 1|1 pages

Putting assessment into context

chapter 1|3 pages

Values for best practice in assessment

chapter 2|3 pages

Why should we assess?

chapter 3|2 pages

What are we assessing? A checklist

chapter 4|2 pages

When should we assess?

chapter 6|2 pages

Plagiarism, cheating and assessment

chapter 8|2 pages

Don’t assess like this!

chapter 9|3 pages

‘I wish I hadn’t done that!’

chapter 2|1 pages

Exams of various sorts

chapter 11|2 pages

Open-book exams

chapter 12|2 pages

Open-notes exams

chapter 13|5 pages

Structured exams

chapter 14|4 pages

Vivas – oral exams

chapter 15|2 pages

Some other kinds of examination

chapter 3|1 pages

Specific assessment formats

chapter 16|4 pages

Essays

chapter 17|4 pages

Reviews and annotated bibliographies

chapter 18|4 pages

Reports

chapter 19|3 pages

Practical work

chapter 20|7 pages

Portfolios

chapter 21|8 pages

Presentations

chapter 22|3 pages

Assessing performances

chapter |4 pages

Student projects

chapter |4 pages

Poster displays and exhibitions

chapter |3 pages

Dissertations and theses

chapter 26|4 pages

Work-based learning

chapter 4|1 pages

Feedback and assessment

chapter 27|2 pages

Quality of feedback

chapter 30|6 pages

Feedback in writing or print

chapter 31|3 pages

Face-to-face feedback

chapter 32|8 pages

Electronic feedback

chapter 33|2 pages

Why consider student peer assessment?

chapter 34|2 pages

What lends itself to peer assessment?

chapter 35|2 pages

Getting started with peer assessment

chapter 36|7 pages

Getting students to formulate criteria

chapter 37|3 pages

Student self-assessment

chapter 38|3 pages

Setting up self-assessment tutor dialogues

chapter 39|3 pages

Further questions to elicit reflection

chapter 40|3 pages

Yet more questions to promote reflection

chapter 6|1 pages

Assessing group learning

chapter 41|1 pages

Take the simplest path

chapter 42|1 pages

Divide and concur

chapter 43|2 pages

Add differentials

chapter 44|1 pages

Add contribution marks

chapter 45|1 pages

Add more tasks

chapter 46|1 pages

Test them orally

chapter 47|1 pages

Test them in writing