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Title Improving Assessment in Higher Education [electronic resource] : a Whole of Institution Approach.
Author Marshall, Stephen.
Publication Info. Sydney : UNSW Press, 2013.
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Description 1 online resource (384 pages)
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Contents List of contributors; Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; PART I; 1. International and national contexts in higher education; 2. The institutional context for change; 3. The UNSW approach to improving assessment; PART II; 4. The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: A whole-of-faculty assessment tool; 5. The Australian School of Business: Re-thinking assessment strategies; 6. The Faculty of the Built Environment: Improving approaches to assessment through curriculum renewal; 7. The COFA Experience: Assessment reform and review; 8. The Faculty of Engineering Beyond professional accreditation.
9. The Law School and the Assessment Project10. The Faculty of Medicine: Diversity, validity and efficiency of assessment; 11. The Faculty of Science: The challenge of diverse disciplines; 12. UNSW Canberra: A university within a university; PART III; 13. Faculty Responses to the Assessment Project; 14. Institutional outcomes of the Assessment Project; 15. Lessons Learnt about Whole-Of-Institution Educational Change; Index.
Summary All teaching institutions recognise the need to make continual improvements in the quality of teaching and learning. But how, in the resource-constrained environments of universities, can quality be improved without increasing resources to fund it? The governing body at the University of New South Wales gave its president and vice-chancellor three years to find a way to do just that in the area of student assessment. Improving Assessment in Higher Education offers a wealth of detail on this innovative project which aimed to improve the efficiency of student assessment while maintaining and imp.
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Subject University of New South Wales.
Educational tests and measurements -- Australia -- New South Wales.
Examinations -- Australia -- New South Wales.
Educational change -- Australia -- New South Wales.
EDUCATION / Higher
EDUCATION / Administration / Higher
Genre Electronic books.
Subject University of New South Wales. (OCoLC)fst00539139
Educational change. (OCoLC)fst00903371
Educational tests and measurements. (OCoLC)fst00903660
Examinations. (OCoLC)fst00917492
New South Wales. (OCoLC)fst01204788
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Ramburuth, Prem.
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Related To Print version: Marshall, Stephen. Improving Assessment in Higher Education : A Whole of Institution Approach. Sydney : UNSW Press, ©2013 9781742234007
ISBN 9781742246628 (electronic bk.)
1742246621 (electronic bk.)
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