Mantz Yorke

Grading Student Achievement in Higher Education

Signals and Shortcomings

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book appraises the way in which summative assessment in higher education is approached, and shows that the foundations of current practices (in the UK and elsewhere) are of questionable robustness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780415393966
• ISBN-10: 0415393965
• Artikelnr.: 26675518

Autorenporträt

Mantz Yorke is Visiting Professor in the Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Assessing Achievement 2. Perceptions of Grade Inflation 3. Case Study: UK Honours Degree Classifications, 1994
5 to 2001
2 4. Grading and its Limitations 5. The Cumulation of Grades 6. Credit 7. Value
Added 8. Conclusion: Judgement, Rather than Measurement?