ASSESSING STUDENTS how shall we know them?

• Main Author: Rowntree, Derek (Author)
• Format: Unknown
• Language: English
• Published: London Kogan Page 1988
• Subjects: Students > Rating of > Great Britain; Students > Rating of
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• Item Description: Includes index.
• Physical Description: xiii, 273 pages illustrations 21 cm
• Bibliography: Bibliography: p. [244]-258.
• ISBN: 0893972711

Assessment methods can largely determine what and how students learn, so it is vital that our assessment methods are appropriate to our true educational purposes. This book examines the issues underlying assessment procedures, such as truth, fairness, trust, humanity and social justice and goes on to consider the five key dimensions of assessment: * why assess? * what to assess? * how to assess? * How to interpret? * How to respond? Having guided us through the many conceptual and terminological traps, the book ends constructively with seventeen proposals for making assessment work in the best interests of our students.