Assessment Learning and Employability

Peter Knight, Mantz Yorke (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2003
Open University Press (Verlag)
978-0-335-21229-3 (ISBN)

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Clearly set out in three specific sections, this book argues that that existing grading practices cannot cope with the expectations laid upon them, while the potential of formative assessment for the support of learning is not fully realised, discusses how institutions need to respond in policy terms to the challenges that have been posed.

What is assessed gets attention: what is not assessed does not. When higher education is expected to promote complex achievements in subject disciplines and in terms of 'employability', problems arise: how are such achievements to be assessed?

In the first part, Knight and Yorke argue that existing grading practices cannot cope with the expectations laid upon them, while the potential of formative assessment for the support of learning is not fully realised. Improving the effectiveness of assessment depends, they claim, on a well-grounded appreciation of what assessment is and what may and may not be expected of it. The second part is about summative judgements for high-stakes purposes. Using established measurement theory, a view is developed of the conditions under which affordable, useful, valid and reliable summative judgements can be made. A conclusion is that many complex achievements resist high-stakes assessment, which directs attention to low-stakes, essentially formative, alternatives. Assessment for learning and employability demands more than module-level changes to assessment methods. The final part discusses how institutions need to respond in policy terms to the challenges that have been posed.

This book has wide and practical relevance - to teachers, module and programme leaders, higher education managers and quality enhancement specialists.

Peter T. Knight is a Senior Lecturer at the Open University, where he advises on assessment and other curriculum issues. During his career, he has taught in primary and secondary schools and has worked at Lancaster University and St Martin's College, Lancaster. Mantz Yorke is Professor of Higher Education at Liverpool John Moores University. He has had senior management experience at his institution and as Director of Quality Enhancement at the Higher Education Quality Council. He has researched and written on various aspects of the student experience.

Preface
Higher education and employability
Summative assessment in disarray
Formative assessment
underexploited potential
Key themes in thinking about assessment
Diversifying assessment methods
Assessing for employability
Authenticity in assessment
Optimising the reliability of assessment
Making better use of formative assessment
Progression
Claimsmaking
Assessment systems in academic departments
Changing the institutional assessment system
Conclusions
References
Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.10.2003
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Milton Keynes
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 234 mm
Gewicht	530 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	0-335-21229-8 / 0335212298
ISBN-13	978-0-335-21229-3 / 9780335212293
Zustand	Neuware