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    The document discusses different views on assessment of students. There is a view that assessment verifies learning at the end, but not enable learning. Exams and essays are still major forms of assessment, but other approaches are increasingly used. Exams emphasize memory over higher understanding, and increased student numbers may encourage multiple choice tests requiring less staff time focusing more on outcomes than formative assessment. Regular assessment is needed to help students pace learning and engage with material from the start. Research shows student behavior and learning are influenced by assessment.

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    The document discusses different views on assessment of students. There is a view that assessment verifies learning at the end, but not enable learning. Exams and essays are still major forms of assessment, but other approaches are increasingly used. Exams emphasize memory over higher understanding, and increased student numbers may encourage multiple choice tests requiring less staff time focusing more on outcomes than formative assessment. Regular assessment is needed to help students pace learning and engage with material from the start. Research shows student behavior and learning are influenced by assessment.

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    The Use of Assessment

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    Michael Boucher
    The document discusses different views on assessment of students. There is a view that assessment verifies learning at the end, but not enable learning. Exams and essays are still major forms of assessment, but other approaches are increasingly used. Exams emphasize memory over higher understanding, and increased student numbers may encourage multiple choice tests requiring less staff time focusing more on outcomes than formative assessment. Regular assessment is needed to help students pace learning and engage with material from the start. Research shows student behavior and learning are influenced by assessment.

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    The use of assessment

    There is a view that the assessment of students' achievements is something which happens
    at the end of a process of learning. According to this view, assessment has little to do
    with fostering or enabling learning, it is a means of verifying that learning has taken
    place.

    Exams and essays still form a significant part of assessment and are the main methods
    used in some cases, but there is now widespread use of other approaches.

    There has been a perception that exams emphasize memory and working within time and
    resource constraints, which may limit their usefulness as tests of higher level
    understanding.

    Increasing student numbers and declining resources may encourage HE institutions to


    move towards options such as multiple-choice tests, which appear to offer savings in staff
    time and to concentrate on summative assessment at the expense of formative assessment.

    http://srhe.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/
    10.1080/1355800950320402#aHR0cDovL3NyaGUudGFuZGZvbmxpbmUuY29tL2RvaS
    9wZGYvMTAuMTA4MC8xMzU1ODAwOTUwMzIwNDAyP25lZWRBY2Nlc3M9dHJ
    1ZUBAQDA=

    Benefits
    If we want to help students to pace their learning, and to engage seriously with the material from
    week one, we need to build in regular assessment tasks.
    http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1469787402003002004

    Doesn’t Benefit
    Research into student learning in higher education over a number of years has provided
    considerable empirical evidence to suggest that student behaviour and student learning
    are very much influenced by assessment.

    http://srhe.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/
    10.1080/1355800950320402#aHR0cDovL3NyaGUudGFuZGZvbmxpbmUuY29tL2RvaS
    9wZGYvMTAuMTA4MC8xMzU1ODAwOTUwMzIwNDAyP25lZWRBY2Nlc3M9dHJ
    1ZUBAQDA=

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