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July 3, 2025
Assessment Matters in Higher Education: Choosing and Using Diverse Approaches
- Author
- Brown, Sally and Angela Glasner, eds.
- Publisher
- Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, Philadelphia, PA
- ISBN
- 0335202438
- Table of Contents
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Preface
Notes on Contributors
ch. 1 Institutional Strategies for Assessment (Sally Brown)
ch. 2 Innovations in Student Assessment: A System-wide Perspective (Angela Glasner)
ch. 3 Assessment and Evaluation: A Systems Approach for their Utilization (T. Dary Erwin)
ch. 4 Using Assessment Strategically to Change the Way Students Learn (Graham Gibbs)
ch. 5 Why Assess Innovatively? (Phil Race)
ch. 6 The Experience of Innovative Assessment: Student Perspectives (Liz McDowell and Kay Sambell)
ch. 7 Biases in Marking Students' Written Work: Quality?
ch. 8 Assessing Practice (Neil D. Fleming)
ch. 9 Assessment of Key Skills (Garth Rhodes and Fred Tallantyre)
ch. 10 Using Portfolios for Assessment in Teacher Preparation and Health Sciences (Gill Young)
ch. 11 Group-based Assessment: An Evaluation of the Use of Assessed Tasks as a Method of Fostering Higher Quality Learning (Mike Heathford)
ch. 12 Dimensions of Oral Assessment and Student Approaches to Learning (Gordon Joughin)
ch. 13 Towards Autonomous Assessment: Using Self-Assessment and Peer Assessment (Angela Brew)
ch. 14 Self-Assessment and Peer Assessment (Shirley Jordan)
ch. 15 Peer Assessment of Undergraduate Seminar Presentations: Motivations, Reflection and Future Directions (Andy Lapham and Ray Webster)
ch. 16 Using Peer Assessment and Self-Assessment for the First Time (Paul Roach)
Conclusion
Index
The Society for Research into Higher Education
Provides both theoretical perspectives and pragmatic advice on how to conduct effective assessment in higher education, drawing on relevant research and contributors' first-hand experience. Contains sections on a systems approach to assessment, the effectiveness of innovative assessment, assessing practice, and autonomous assessment, peer assessment, and self-assessment. Material is oriented toward the UK and New Zealand experience. (From the Publisher)