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Peer reviewedSharp, Keith; Earle, Sarah – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2000
Discussion of the practice in the United Kingdom of permitting disabled students to take an alternative form of assessment focuses on implications vis-a-vis assessment principles. It concludes that alternative assessments are compensatory in nature, violate the principles of assessment, and undermine the validity of assessment in higher education.…
Descriptors: College Students, Disabilities, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods
Direct linkMaclellan, Effie – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2004
The current preference for alternative assessment has been partly stimulated by recent evidence on learning which points to the importance of students' active engagement in the learning process. While alternative assessment may well fulfill the aims of formative assessment, its value in the summative assessment required in higher education is more…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Formative Evaluation, Alternative Assessment, Summative Evaluation
