Assessment in higher education in the professions: action research as an authentic assessment task

Title
Assessment in higher education in the professions: action research as an authentic assessment task
Publication Date
2012
Author(s)
Maxwell, Thomas W
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1080/13562517.2012.725220
UNE publication id
une:11914
Abstract
The argument of this article is that assessment in higher education in the professions can benefit from quality assessment tasks linked to professional practice. Such an assessment task would need to be authentic requiring considerable intellectual skill as well as attending to the realities of professional demands. The idea of authentic assessment is developed by using five of Boud et al.'s propositions in higher educational assessment. This idea is illustrated by the use of action research in a teaching internship, that is, data driven learning in the workplace which also serves as an assessment task in the final year of a professional Bachelor degree. Some difficulties and some illustrative, positive student reactions are presented.
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Citation
Teaching in Higher Education, 17(6), p. 686-696
ISSN
1470-1294
1356-2517
Start page
686
End page
696

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