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Martinez-Vazquez, P. – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2021
This paper proposes a model to re-balance assessment schedules through the quantification of students' workload. The initiative derives from the migration of a term-based to a semester-based calendar in a HE institution. The change required scrutiny of former and new assessment calendars which highlighted deficiencies in the administration of…
Descriptors: Semester System, Higher Education, Educational Change, Engineering Education
Harland, Tony; Wald, Navé – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2021
In this paper we examine the history and development of internal assessment practices at a university in New Zealand. The work re-visits the 'assessment arms race' study and builds upon the key arguments presented so far. It was discovered that student demand in the early 1970s triggered the introduction of internal assessment and workloads…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Student Evaluation, Educational History
Kozak, Stan – Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 2011
In the 1970s, Ontario secondary schools started to adopt the semester system, four courses over the day where there had been seven. With this change, a creative outdoor educator realized that one teacher could take a group of students for all four credits, eliminating the restrictions of the timetable and addressing opportunities to learn in the…
Descriptors: Semester System, School Restructuring, Learning Strategies, Credits
Lindsay, Roger; Breen, Rosanna; Paton-Saltzberg, Renee – Psychology Teaching Review, 2002
The introduction of modular schemes and a semesterised academic year are amongst the most fundamental changes ever to occur in UK higher education. There is, however, a notable lack of pedagogic research evidence on the effects upon student learning of course frameworks and the temporal structure of large-scale learning units. In the absence of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, School Schedules, Semester System