Assessment and Feedback in Higher Education, A Guide for Teachers

Author

McConlogue; Teresa

Year

2020

Publisher

UCL Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-1-78735-365-7

Link

Last Update

24-Jul-2025

Keywords

Education

Description

Welcome to this guide to assessment in higher education.

Assessment is a high-risk activity. Quality assurance procedures, the employability agenda and equality and diversity concerns all affect assessment practices. Governments, employers, funders, professional bodies and parents are all concerned stakeholders, and this makes assessment a high-risk, pressurised activity for both students and teachers.

Teachers spend a lot of time on assessment and feedback, but often have very little professional development in how to design assessments and make reliable assessment judgements. Teachers grapple with issues such as unreliable marking and grade inflation. Inexperienced teachers can be asked to design courses and...