Assessment: for and against The claims for assessment In an address at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1994 the then HEFCE Director of Assessment, Dr Paul Clark, set out what he saw as the benefits of the process, ...
could not think of a practical alternative to the RAE in providing the judgements to implement it. Most key features of the exercise were found to be satisfactory, with misgivings mainly about the detailed mechanics of conducting it.
Contributed papers presented at a conference held in 2001, at Bangalore.
Saunders, M. (2006) 'The presence of evaluation theory and practice in educational and social development: toward an ... Saunders, M., Trowler, P. and Bamber, V. (2011) Reconceptualising Evaluative Practices in Higher Education: The ...
This text examines the wisdom of such a move when many of the conditions necessary for its success are not present.
By bringing together leading experts on quality assurance in higher education from seven countries (from Europe, the USA and South Africa), this volume intends to go several steps further than most publications on the same subject.
Different higher education systems are trying to develop assessment tools (internal and external) to improve the quality of teaching, research and extension activities, and these are either based on experiences of selected countries or are ...