500 Tips on Assessment / Edition 2

by Sally Brown, Phil Race, Brenda Smith

Overview

In this completely updated edition of 500 Tips on Assessment, the authors look at the questions and the problems that teachers face and provide them with practical guidance. Their advice is down-to-earth, jargon-free and digestible, covering such key issues as:

• putting assessment into context: best practice, learning outcomes and monitoring quality of assessment
• different examination formats: traditional, open-book, open-notes, oral exams
• different assessment formats: essays, reports, practical work, presentations
• feedback and assessment
• assessing group learning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415342797
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/23/2004
Series:	500 Tips Series
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Phil Race is Emeritus Professor in Educational Development at the University of Leeds and also runs training workshops for staff and students in universities, colleges and other organisations throughout the UK. Sally Brown is Visiting Professor of Learning and Teaching at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen and is Director of Membership Services for the Institute of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. Brenda Smith is Associate Director at the Centre for Academic Practice, Nottingham Trent University.

Table of Contents

1. Putting assessment into context 2. Exams of various sorts 3. Specific assessment formats 4. Feedback and assessment 5. Involving students in their own assessment 6. Assessing group learning

Editorial Reviews

'This is an absolute gem of a book full of succinct and good advice based upon a wealth of personal experience by three well known and widely respected authors...[They] are to be congratulated and I would recommend any serious academic to have a look at it.' - David Harwood, Physical Sciences Educational Review, Vol 6

From the Publisher

This little book is just as good as the predecessors - better in some way - and deals with a range of processes that are too often almost ignored. [The authors] concentrate on further and higher education, mainly on the latter. One of the book' strengths is that it looks fare wider than at the assessment of undergraduate course work and exam scripts. So there are tips on the assessment of theses, displays, portfolios and practical activities, and there's material on self-assessment and quality control.

British Journal of Educational Technology