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An Alternative Grading Tool for Enhancing Assessment Practice and Quality Assurance in Higher Education
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Grainger, Peter; Weir, Katie – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2016
Assessing student learning in university courses is commonly done using a rubric that arranges the assessment criteria and standards descriptors in a matrix style or grid format. This paper introduces an alternative style of grading tool known as the continua model of a guide to making judgements, which arranges assessment criteria based on a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Evaluation, Alternative Assessment
Threshold Concepts in Business School Curriculum--A Pedagogy for Public Trust
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Bajada, Christopher; Jarvis, Walter; Trayler, Rowan; Bui, Anh Tuan – Education & Training, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore some of the implications for curriculum design by operationalizing threshold concepts and capabilities (TCC) in subject delivery. The motivation for undertaking this exploration is directly related to addressing public concerns for the business school curriculum. Design/Methodology/Approach: A…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Curriculum Design, Business Administration Education, Fundamental Concepts
Assessment as Text Production: Drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics to Frame the Design and Analysis of Assessment Tasks
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Hughes, Clair – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2009
The plentiful and steadily increasing literature on teaching and learning in higher education has produced a number of helpful frameworks and guidelines that can be applied to the development and communication of assessment practice. The continued prevalence of much imprecise, unclear and otherwise confusing terminology around the discussion of…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Test Construction, Design, Foreign Countries
Proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on e-Learning (Prague, Czech Republic, July 23-26, 2013)
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Nunes, Miguel Baptista, Ed.; McPherson, Maggie, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2013, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (Prague, Czech Republic, July 23-26, 2013). The e-Learning 2013 conference aims to…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Technology Uses in Education
Vocational Education and Training for Life Long Learning in the Information Era. IVETA [International Vocational Education and Training Association] Conference Proceedings (Hong Kong, China, August 6-9, 2000).
Vocational Training Council (Hong Kong). – 2000
This document contains 123 papers from an international conference on vocational education and training (VET) for lifelong learning in the information era. The papers focus on the following themes: (1) societal and ethical issues; (2) human resource development and personnel training; (3) international issues; (4) information technology in VET;…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academic Standards, Adult Learning, Alternative Assessment