文档介绍：Developing Effective
Assessment in Higher
Education: a practical
guide
Developing Effective
Assessment in Higher
Education: a
practical guide
Sue Bloxham
Pete Boyd
Open University Press
Open University Press
McGraw-Hill Education
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First published 2007
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Contents
Contributors ix
Acknowledgements x
PART 1: INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT 1
1 Introduction 3
The primacy of assessment 3
Assessment pressures and influences 3
Policy 4
Research evidence 5
Why another assessment book? 6
Situated practice 7
Audience 8
Plan of the book 8
How to use this book 10
A note about terminology 13
Conclusion 14
2 The evidence base for assessment practice in higher education 15
The relationship between assessment and learning 16
The relationship between feedback and learning 20
The validity of assessment tasks 24
Constructive alignment 27
Conclus