Assessing skills and practice

Assessing Skills and Practice outlines how to ensure fair, consistent and reliable assessment of practical activities. With a particular focus on formative feedback and its role in helping students to understand what is required of them, this guide is packed with advice, examples and case studiesnbsp;covering the key areas, including:

assessing across the arts, humanities and sciences - from labwork and clinical practice to dance assessing oral work using feedback ensuring inclusive and fair assessment.

This volume is an ideal introduction for new or part-time lecturers and will also be valued by experienced teachers who are new to this area of assessment or who want to improve their current practice.

List of figures	p. ix
Series preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Introduction: Assessing skills and practice: key issues	p. xvii
1 The importance of good practical assessment design	p. 1
2 Assessing practical skills: the value of formative assessment	p. 13
3 Ensuring equivalence of experience for disabled students	p. 25
4 Assessing diverse students fairly	p. 39
5 Fostering independent learning: assessing self- and time-management skills	p. 47
6 Assessing presentations and other oral work	p. 59
7 Assessing practical skills in laboratories	p. 69
8 Assessing the production of artefacts in the studio and workshop	p. 83
9 Assessing live performance	p. 91
10 Assessing process	p. 99
11 Using other stakeholders to assess student achievement	p. 113
12 Assessing skills and practice: the values that underpin our approach	p. 123
Bibliography and further reading	p. 125
Index	p. 133

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