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- Identify a journal, or failing that
a book, that addresses assessment or teaching and learning or educational
issues within your own disciplinary area or your field of academic
or professional interest.
- If you choose a journal, take a recent,
representative sample of what it publishes - perhaps a complete years
Issues from within the last five years. [If no journal is available
in your precise field, try to locate one in a reasonably similar or
related field. Failing that, try the library catalogue for any text
whatever that deals with assessment in your subject area. Failing
that, look through some recent years of the HERDSA publications: the
journal (Higher Education Research and Development) and the annual
conference proceedings (Research and Development in Higher Education);
scan the contents pages and try to locate any articles at all that
refer to assessment within your area or an area close to it.
- Locate and critically read a few papers
or chapters that appear, from their titles, to be likely to address,
recommend, critique or evaluate, an approach to assessing students.
- Read whatever you can find, and summarise
what position the respective authors appear take about assessment.
Then make notes of your own in the form of the draft for a critical
response to these articles, from a student learning perspective.
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