Description
Book SynopsisIn 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.
Trade Review'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.'
'It is both a first class reference book for designing or developing assessment as well as an invaluable check list: my review copy is well-thumbed already. The authors are to be congratulated and I would recommend any serious academic to have a look at it.' - both David Harwood, Physical Sciences Educational Review, Vol 6
'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
Table of Contents1. 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
