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Assessment and Learning places learning at the centre of our concerns and explicitly underscores the importance of assessment in that learning. This new edition provides a comprehensive overview of assessment that is used to support learning, practice-based theory on assessment for learning, and formative assessment to support individual development and motivate learners. Readers will find research-informed insights from a wide variety of international contexts. It features: New chapters on e-assessment, the learner's perspective on assessment and learning and the influence of assessment on how we value learning; Teacher-friendly assessment topics; Practical examples and chapter summaries throughout; This book is useful to teacher educators and researchers on graduate courses in education, teaching, learning and assessment.
Instrumentalism and Achievement: A Socio-Cultural Understanding of Tensions in Vocational Education
Instrumentalism and Achievement: A Socio-Cultural Understanding of Tensions in Vocational Education
Introduction
The students … said to me, ‘we want it crystal clear. Pass criteria [sic], number P5, you need to do this, this and this. You've missed this, you haven't done that. Crystal clear, short comment, each criteria, not a holistic comment. Because, they said, ‘the holistic comment can be misinterpreted and what I'm thinking might not be what the criteria's asking me to do’. So they want it crystal clear. (David, advanced vocational education lecturer, 2008, quoted in Ecclestone, 2010 p. v)
Doing their presentations, the students ask ‘Is it part of the assessment criteria?’ I say, ‘Well no, but it is good for you ...
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