How Assessment Supports Learning: Learning-Oriented Assessment in Action - Softcover

Carless, David; Joughin, Gordon; Liu, Ngar-Fun

 
9789622098237: How Assessment Supports Learning: Learning-Oriented Assessment in Action

Synopsis

This book presents 39 innovative assessment practices from a range of disciplines and located in a clearly articulated theoretical framework, it also concludes with suggestions for responding to challenges at the interface between assessment and learning.

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About the Author

Ngar-Fun Liu is currently a freelance education consultant in Hong Kong. Her research interests include peer learning, curriculum design and assessment, bilingual education and second language listening comprehension.

From the Back Cover

Invites teachers in higher education to rethink the purposes of assessment and to revise their assessment practices in the interests of improved student learning. It combines practice, theory, research and extensive examples of assessment techniques to support academics in this vital part of their multi-faceted role.

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