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Doherty, Catherine; Kettle, Margaret; May, Lyn; Caukill, Emma – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2011
With more constructivist approaches to learning in higher education and more value on teamwork skills, students' oracy (speaking and listening) features more prominently in curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. The paper reports on a study of two first-year Australian university courses in disciplines with explicit industry orientations and high…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Evaluation, Student Participation, Teamwork
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Brindley, Geoff – Language Testing, 1998
Examines the nature of outcomes-based assessment and reporting systems in language education, noting problems that may arise in their development and implementation by presenting case studies of assessment innovations in the United Kingdom and Australia, which experienced various political, technical, and practical problems. The relationship…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods
Falk, Ian, Ed. – 1999
The 12 chapters in this second title in the series expose and explore the following significant issues underlying schooling and its intersection with the adult world outside of school: aspects of knowledge, gender, literacy across culture, and assessing what is learned in school and in the adult world. The chapters are: "Whose Knowledge Gets…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Constructivism (Learning), Cultural Literacy, Curriculum Development
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers