Self-assessment is increasingly used in higher education as a strategy for both student learning and assessment. This book examines the full range of concerns about self-assessment, placing it in the wider context of innovative teaching and learning practices.

First Published in 1987. The assumption about the purpose of education, to which the authors of this book subscribe, is that it is to produce autonomous lifelong learners. This book is about a very important goal of education and how it can be translated into practice. It concerns ways in which teachers in higher education can enable students to become more autonomous in their learning; that is, assist students to learn more effectively without the constant presence or intervention of a te...

Assessment is a value-laden activity surrounded by debates about academic standards, preparing students for employment, measuring quality and providing incentives. There is substantial evidence that assessment, rather than teaching, has the major influence on students’ learning. It directs attention to what is important and acts as an incentive for study.This book revisits assessment in higher education, examining it from the point of view of what assessment does and can do and arg...

Every day we are confronted with problems and challenges which we address by drawing on our experience and by using this experience to find ways of learning what to do in new circumstances. Learning through experience is the normal, commonplace approach to learning and we take it for granted. Whilst much is known about teaching and being taught, far less attention has been given to learning in context - in particular, to learning outside the classroom. Yet this is in fact where most learni...

This book asks how we might conceptualise, design for and evaluate the impact of feedback in higher education. Ultimately, the purpose of feedback is to improve what students can do: therefore, effective feedback must have impact. Students need to be actively engaged in seeking, sense-making and acting upon any information provided to them in order to develop and improve. Feedback can thus be understood as not just the giving of information, but as a complex process integral to teaching an...

This book is the first to explore the big question of how assessment can be refreshed and redesigned in an evolving digital landscape. There are many exciting possibilities for assessments that contribute dynamically to learning. However, the interface between assessment and technology is limited. Often, assessment designers do not take advantage of digital opportunities. Equally, digital innovators sometimes draw from models of higher education assessment that are no longer best practice....

Three weeks ago, Ethan Cross was nobody.A factory worker from Earth who stumbled onto something impossible in the dark, made one bad decision, and woke up on the other side of the galaxy with a sentient starship bonded to his soul and a life he never could have imagined.He's been catching up ever since.But catching up is over. When a distress beacon arrives from deep in contested space, it doesn't just mean a teammate is in danger — it means the enemy has done somet...

Bringing together the work of experts from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, this book provides the evidence and guidance required to improve feedback practices for students on placements. The chapters tackle questions such as how feedback can be used in work contexts, what types of feedback can learners engage with and how using feedback in classrooms differs from navigating it in the workplace. It also addresses how learners can make feedback effective for them in work-based placement co...

Ethan Cross expected second shift at Meridian Industrial to end the way it always did—oil-stained hands, clock out, go home.Then something impossible shows up behind the plant. It isn’t on any schedule. It isn’t on any radar. And it definitely isn’t human.Ethan makes one mistake, he gets close.That’s when his ordinary life ends. Whatever is sitting in the dark isn’t debris or a prank—it’s a machine built for a purpose, and it didn’t arrive by accident. Ethan doesn’t...

They built a network to save their lives. Now something ancient is using it to reach inside their minds.Former factory worker Ethan Cross never wanted a starship. Now he and Vesper, the sentient ship bonded to his mind, are attempting something no one has dared in a hundred thousand years: gathering the galaxy's scattered, hunted pilots into a single connected fleet. A song in the dark that promises no one has to fly alone again.But a bright fire draws wolves.Someth...

They buried the war. The empire sent lawyers.For a year, Ethan Cross has been a ghost to Earth. A fugitive's face on the news, and a string of unanswered texts on his best friend's phone.Out in the dark, he has become something else: the voice of a fleet of freed starships, bound by a promise to lay the dead to rest.Then the empire serves a warrant at the graveside, and takes someone the fleet cannot lose. Getting her back means walking into the hea...

Bringing together international authors to examine how diversity and inclusion impact assessment in higher education, this book provides educators with the knowledge and understanding required to transform practices so that they are more equitable and inclusive of diverse learners.Assessment drives learning and determines who succeeds. Assessment for Inclusion in Higher Education is written to ensure that no student is unfairly or unnecessarily disadvantaged by the design ...