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‘In other words, if students perceive a need to understand the material in order to successfully negotiate the assessment task, they will engage in deep learning but if they perceive the assessment instrument to require rote learning of information, they … Continue reading

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…assessment is a form of communication. This communication can be to a variety of sources, to students (feedback on their learning), to the lecturer (feedback on their teaching), to the curriculum designer (feedback on the curriculum) to administrators (feedback on … Continue reading

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I’ve blogged before about Snyder’s (1971) ‘Hidden curriculum’ ( click here). But looking in more detail, on page 120, we have  ‘so many students in colleges and universities…get their rewards from grades on papers they have written and not from the … Continue reading

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I’m reading for the literature review for my PhD, so expect some gems in the next week or so! In searching for more information about the background to our use of interactive computer-marked assessment at the Open University I came … Continue reading

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On being chased by a bull

I just came across this quote: If you are in a field and are being chased by a bull you will probably perform above your usual level at jumping the gate, but below your usual level at undoing the combination … Continue reading

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“While using computers to score essays may have seemed like science fiction when first conceived (Page 1966) such application may seem remarkably mundane when compared to contemporary capabilities of computers to win game shows , respond amicably to our vocal … Continue reading

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I thought I’d quoted this one before but it seems not. I can remember reading this for the first time, perhaps 5 years ago, and being amazed that it was written as long ago as 1995. The whole chapter feels … Continue reading

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This one comes from Carl Wieman who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001. I’ll start with a quote which gives the broader flavour of the paper: [pg10] [we should] ‘approach the teaching of science like a science. That … Continue reading

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I’m not sure about the detail of this one, but as a physicist I couldn’t resist the analogy between quantum mechanics and the testing effect! ‘The testing effect represents a conundrum, a small version of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle in … Continue reading

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‘Assessment is a moral activity. What we choose to assess and how shows quite starkly what we value.’ Knight, P. (ed) (1995) Assessment for learning in Higher Education. Kogan Page in association with SEDA. pg13 (introduction)

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