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Title Advances and innovations in university assessment and feedback : a festchrift in honour of Professor Dai Hounsell / edited by Carolin Kreber, Charles Anderson, Noel Entwistle and Jan McArthur
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 275 pages) : illustrations
Contents Title page; Imprint; Contents; Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; PART A CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ON THE NATURE AND PURPOSES OF ASSESSMENT; 1 Shifting Views of Assessment: From Secret Teachers' Business to Sustaining Learning; 2 Flourishing amid Strangeness and Uncertainty: Exploring the Meaning of 'Graduateness' and its Challenges for Assessement; 3 Assessment for Learning Environments: A Student-Centred Perspective; PART B STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS OF ASSESSMENT AND FEEDBACK; 4 Perceptions of Assessment and their Influences on Learning
5 Students' and Teachers' Perceptions of Fairness in Assessment6 Perceptions of Assessment Standards and Student Learning; PART C RECONCEPTUALISING IMPORTANT FACETS OF ASSESSMENT; 7 Only Connect? Communicating Meaning through Feedback; 8 Learning from Assessment Events: The Role of Goal Knowledg; 9 The Learning-Feedback-Assessment Triumvirate: Reconsidering Failure in Pursuit of Social Justice ; PART D INNOVATIONS IN ASSESSMENT PRACTICES; 10 Guiding Principles for Peer Review: Unlocking Learners' Evaluative Skills
11 Disruptions and Dialogues: Supporting Collaborative Connoisseurship in Digital Environments12 Understanding Students' Experiences of Being Assessed: The Interplay between Prior Guidance, Engaging with Assessments and Receiving Feedback; Notes on the Contributors; Index
Summary Our understanding of the purposes of assessment and the nature of assessment practices in higher education has changed markedly over the past forty years. These changes are a response not only to recent developments in our conceptualisations of student learning but also to the demands a rapidly changing and increasingly complex world places on students. This book contains new perspectives on assessment and feedback provided by world renowned researchers on issues that are currently of great interest to both academic managers and teaching staff, as they try to make courses more effective and more appealing at a time when universities compete for incoming students. Rather than simply sharing recent inventions in assessment and feedback, the contributors to this book highlight the linkages between these innovations and new theorising and empirical research on assessment and student learning, thereby offering practices that are not only pioneering but evidence-based. Key Features. Provides a historical overview of assessment and feedback in universities showing how our understanding of assessment practices has changed over the years, both in response to new conceptualisations of learning and the changing nature of society Contains new perspectives of assessment and feedback provided by world renowned researchers on issues that are currently of great interest to both academic managers and teaching staff Reports on recent innovations in assessment practices in higher education Engages critically with recent research on assessment and feedback offering evidence-based conclusions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Educational tests and measurements.
Education, Higher -- Great Britain
Education, Higher -- Australia
College students -- Rating of.
College teaching -- Evaluation
Learning -- Evaluation
Educational Measurement
EDUCATION -- Higher.
EDUCATION -- Teaching Methods & Materials -- Arts & Humanities.
College students -- Rating of
College teaching -- Evaluation
Education, Higher
Educational tests and measurements
Learning -- Evaluation
Australia
Great Britain
Genre/Form Festschriften
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Kreber, Carolin, editor
Anderson, Charles, 1952- editor.
Entwistle, Noel James, editor
McArthur, Jan, editor
Hounsell, Dai, honouree
ISBN 9780748694556
0748694552
Other Titles Festchrift in honour of Professor Dai Hounsell
Festchrift in honor of Professor Dai Hounsell