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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 of the book, it is argued 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. The authors argue that improving the effectiveness of assessment depends on a well-grounded appreciation of what assessment is, and what may and may not be expected of it. The second part covers 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. One 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. The book concludes with a discussion of how institutions can respond in policy terms to the challenges that have been posed. Assessment, Learning and Employability has wide and practical relevance - to teachers, module and programme leaders, higher education managers and quality enhancement specialists. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis CONTENTS Preface Chapter 1: Higher education and employability Chapter 2: Summative assessment in disarray Chapter 3: Formative assessment: unrealized potential Chapter 4: Key themes in thinking about assessment Chapter 5: Diversifying assessment methods Chapter 6: Assessing for employability Chapter 7: Authenticity in assessment Chapter 8: Optimizing the reliability of assessment Chapter 9: Making better use of formative assessment Chapter 10: Progression Chapter 11: Claims making Chapter 12: Assessment systems in academic departments Chapter 13: Developing the institutional assessment system Chapter 14: Conclusions References...
