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This Resources section include links to a range of useful resources, including:
Other useful links to websites and resources for practitioners interested in broader effective assessment practices are provided below:
Assessment Websites
Re-Engineering Assessment Practice in Higher Education
http://www.reap.ac.uk/index.html
Challenging perspectives on assessment (COLMSCT)
http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/index.php?s=39
Higher Education Academy
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/learning/assessment
JISC e-assessment
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/assessment
Engineering subject centre
http://www.engsc.ac.uk/er/assessment/index.asp
Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences
http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/news/fullstory.php?id=118
LTSN Generic Centre assessment series
http://www.ukcle.ac.uk/resources/assessment/series.html
Subject Centre for LLAS
http://www.llas.ac.uk/resources/goodpractice.aspx?resourceid=1407
Subject Centre for English
http://www.english.heacademy.ac.uk/index.php
Assessment Plus Consortium
http://www.writenow.ac.uk/assessmentplus/outcomes.htm
The Mathletics suite of online maths assessments
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~mastmmg/Downloads/entry.htm
These extensive tests cover GCSE, AS and A levels, first year and selected second year university topics in maths (stats to follow soon). They are fully functioning and free for any educational user to mount on a network or simply point students at it for private study. “
Articles and books relating to formative assessment
Books
Balancing dilemmas in assessment and learning in contemporary education. (Ed Anton Havnes and Liz McDowell) Routledge (2008)
Innovative assessment in Higher Education (Ed: Bryan C and Clegg K), Taylor and Francis (2006)
Articles
Biggs, J. (1996) Assessing learning quality: reconciling institutional, staff and educational demands. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 21(1), 5-15
Black, P. and Wiliam, D. (1998) Assessment and classroom learning. Assessment in Education, 5(1), 7-71
Boud, D. (2000) Sustainable assessment: rethinking assessment for the learning society. Studies in Continuing Education, 22(2), 151-167
Gibbs, G. and Simpson, C. (2004-5), Does your assessment support your students’ learning? Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (on-line), 1(1), 3-31. Available online at http://www.glos.ac.uk/adu/clt/lathe/issue1/index.cfm (accessed 7/8/07)
Knight, P. and Yorke, M. (2003) Assessment, learning and employability. Buckingham: Open University Press
Linn, R. Assessment and accountability. Educational Researcher, 29(2), 4-16
Nicol, D. J. and Macfarlane-Dick, D. (2006) Formative assessment and self regulated learning; a model and seven principles of good feedback practice. Studies in Higher Education. 31(2), 199-218
Rust, C., O’Donovan, B. and Price, M. (2005) A social constructivist assessment process model: how the research literature shows us this could be best practice. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 30(3), pp231-240
Sadler, R. (1989) Formative assessment and the design of instructional systems. Instructional Science, 18, 119-144
Sambell, K. and McDowell, L. (1998) The construction of the hidden curriculum: messages and meaning in the assessment of student learning. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 23(4), 391-402,
Vygotsky, L. S. (1978). Mind in society: The development of higher psychological processes (M. Cole, et al Eds. & Trans.), Harvard University Press
Yorke, M. (2003) Formative assessment in Higher Education: moves towards theory and the enhancement of pedagogic practice. Higher Education 45(4), 477-501