Assessment is a crucial element in enhancing the overall quality of teaching and learning in higher education. What and how students learn depends to a major extent on how ...
Assessment is a crucial element in enhancing the overall quality of teaching and learning in higher education. What and how students learn depends to a major extent on how they think they will be assessed (Biggs & Tang, 2007). All assessments lead to some amount of student learning, but a fundamental challenge lies in stimulating the right kind of learning. Therefore, it is important that assessment practices are designed to send the right signals to students in shaping the effectiveness of student learning – about what they should learn and how they should learn...