Download The Student Assessment Handbook: New Directions in by Lee Dunn, Chris Morgan, Meg O'Reilly, Sharon Parry PDF

By Lee Dunn, Chris Morgan, Meg O'Reilly, Sharon Parry

A guide to present perform in assessment, rather for these execs coming to phrases with new pressures on their conventional educating practices. elevated use of IT, versatile review equipment and caliber coverage all affect evaluation, and the necessity to diversify and adapt conventional evaluate practices to fit new modes of studying is clearer than ever.The scholar review instruction manual seems on the effectiveness of conventional tools at this time and offers instructions on how those equipment might be constructed to suit today's instructing environments. it's a useful source with case experiences, mirrored image bins and diagnostic instruments to aid the reader follow the rules to daily teaching.The booklet offers recommendation on quite a lot of themes including:* assessing to advertise specific sorts of studying results* utilizing significant evaluate innovations to evaluate huge teams* the results of versatile studying on timing and pacing of evaluate* the professionals and cons of on-line overview* tackling internet plagiarism and the authentication of scholar paintings* mentoring evaluation criteria* assessing widely used abilities and caliber coverage.

Show description

Read or Download The Student Assessment Handbook: New Directions in Traditional and Online Assessment PDF

Similar teacher resources books

Getting the Buggers to Write

During this 3rd variation, bestselling writer Sue Cowley deals recommendation on enhancing abilities and self assurance, and getting scholars fascinated by writing — not only in literacy or English, yet around the curriculum. This booklet is stuffed with enticing and inventive techniques for writers in any respect phases of self assurance and competence: from youngsters simply commencing to write, to skilled newcomers seeking to ideal their very own variety.

How to Teach English (How to...)

Sturdy publication that actually breaks down instructing and educating English into effortless phrases for the newbie. every one bankruptcy makes use of daring face variety to spot the several educating and grammar phrases. great effortless to exploit end on the finish of every bankruptcy. there's a nice "WHAT IF" bankruptcy on the finish that truly explains how you can deal with the tricky and ugly facets of educating!

Additional info for The Student Assessment Handbook: New Directions in Traditional and Online Assessment

Example text

Unfortunately, where students are misdirected in their learning efforts by inadequate assessment tasks, they are more than likely to achieve inadequate learning outcomes – and it may be through no fault of their own. Students need to be very clear about learning objectives, and performance must be measured against these objectives. When these conditions are not met, a ‘de facto curriculum’ (Rowntree, 1987) takes over. Appropriate design of assessment indicates to students where to put their focus, energy and time.

In some ways, the new flexible learners are not dissimilar to the 36 Issues and themes in assessment distance learners of prior times, yet it would be wrong to conflate the two, as much traditional distance education was anything but flexible. How flexible learners go about their study As assessment drives and shapes much student learning, it is clearly a key area of attention in flexible education. We tend to assume that our carefully crafted resources will guide student learning and that students will work through our materials more or less in the manner directed.

We know that, in practice, synthesis may be overlooked in the wish to simplify the marking tasks. Assessment, particularly of large classes, can be governed by what is easy to assess rather than what should be assessed. While individual short answer and multiple choice questions can be successfully structured to indicate higher-order thinking, in practice the overall effect of such assessment methods is to dissect knowledge into small pieces and therefore provide the student with little or no opportunity for synthesis, or development of a coherent knowledge base.

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.62 of 5 – based on 27 votes