Assessment for Inclusion in Higher Education: Promoting Equity and Social Justice in Assessment

Bringing together international authors to examine how diversity and inclusion impact assessment in higher education, this book provides educators with the knowledge and understanding required to transform practices so that they are more equitable and inclusive of diverse learners.

Assessment drives learning and determines who succeeds. Assessment for Inclusion in Higher Education is written to ensure that no student is unfairly or unnecessarily disadvantaged by the design or delivery of assessment. The chapters are structured according to three themes: 1) macro contexts of assessment for inclusion: societal and cultural perspectives; 2) meso contexts of assessment for inclusion: institutional and community perspectives; and 3) micro contexts of assessment for inclusion: educators, students and interpersonal perspectives. These three levels are used to identify new ways of mobilising the sector towards assessment for inclusion in a systematic and scholarly way.

This book is essential reading for those in higher education who design and deliver assessment, as well as researchers and postgraduate students exploring assessment, equity and inclusive pedagogy.

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Rola Ajjawi is Professor Education Research at the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning, Deakin University, Australia where she has led an extensive program of research into student failure and success, with particular interest in equity, feedback and learning cultures.

Joanna Tai is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning, Deakin University Australia. She researches student experiences of learning and assessment from university to the workplace, including feedback and assessment literacy, evaluative judgement and peer learning.

David Boud is Alfred Deakin Professor and Foundation Director of the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning at Deakin University, Australia. He is also Emeritus Professor at the University of Technology Sydney and Professor of Work and Learning at Middlesex University. His current work is in the areas of assessment for learning in higher education, academic formation and workplace learning.

Trina Jorre de St Jorre is Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning, Deakin University, and Student Experience Portfolio Manager at University of New England. Her research and practice is focused on continual improvement of the student experience, with particular interest in graduate employability and student achievement.