Little research has exclusively focused on the accessibility of AC, despite their substantial impacts on students' and tutors' engagement with AC and the facilitative role of AC for assessment and learning. Drawing upon sequential online surveys and interviews with undergraduate students from diverse disciplines in a British university,…

A key debate in higher education is how assessment and feedback can be constructed to maximize opportunities for meaningful student learning. In this paper, we explore how a learning-focused model of feedback, teacher-student dialogic feed-forward, is enacted in practice, exposing many affordances but also some challenges. Adopting a small-scale…

Purpose: Students of social research methods in search of a "Haynes manual" type set of instructions are often, if not invariably, thwarted in their ambitions and are either confronted with an abstract description which remains firmly at the level of methodology or, alternatively, an uncritical mechanical template for application. The…

Describes how "The Times" and "The Times Higher Education Supplement" use publicly available and verifiable data to publish university league tables as an aid to the application process for young people seeking the most appropriate course programs and institutions. (EV)

Author describes current controversy in England over whether or not personnel trainers should be qualified by standard examinations. He also notes growing consensus" that personnel and training staffs there are behind the times, below standards in other professions and not applying behavioral sciences to industry as fully as possible.…

Paper concentrates on the special problems involved in evaluating multimedia educational systems, particularly as they affect researchers. (Author)

Working parties established by the Secondary Examinations Council are devising grade-related criteria for use with the new General Certificate of Secondary Education Examination (GCSE). The aim is to produce in each subject a set of performance criteria covering GCSE grades A-G. The work of the physics group is discussed. (JN)

Lecturers at a British university participated in two workshops to examine the consistency of assessments of undergraduates' work. Use of both analytical and global quality measures, when clearly understood by the raters, improved assessment practices. Ongoing discussion of evaluation criteria was recommended. (SK)

Research studies are analyzed to determine what factors influence parents' positive evaluations of schools. (GW)

Discusses flaws in the procedures for the marking of 'A' Level papers by examiners. (DF)

Proposes a social justice approach to the evaluation of educational programs that would illuminate the impact on subordinated and underrepresented groups, such as women and ethnic minorities. (DM)

Reviews "Marking A Level English Literature" by P.A. Lapworth, which is intended as a clarification for teachers of the basis on which candidates' papers are assessed by the Joint Matriculation Board examiners at 'A' Level. (DF)

Trade-offs, a videotape economics education program for nine- to twelve-year-olds, is used to illustrate the evaluation of such materials. Criteria cited include design and presentation, overt and covert attitudes expressed, opportunities for student involvement, academic soundness, validity of assumptions about the learning process and clarity…

Political calls for accountability reflect a desire for real evidence on effective teaching, but these proposals tend to focus on the teacher, not teaching. Educators should create their own structure for the intraprofessional evaluation of teaching, emphasizing empirical examination of teaching intentions, processes, and outcomes. (SJL)