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9780415578134

Towards Fairer University Assessment: Recognizing the Concerns of Students

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415578134

  • ISBN10:

    0415578132

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2011-01-13
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This book is about a long ignored determinant of students' satisfaction with their university studies ' their perception of how fairly they are judged, marked, ranked and rewarded for demonstrating their capabilities at university. In the high stakes competitive field of higher education, students are increasingly positioned as 'clients' whose views on their university experience are considered vitally important. Yet paradoxically, little research has been undertaken to find out more about how students decide whether they have been treated fairly, and what they do about it. This book fills a major gap in our understanding of these issues.The main questions this book addresses are:Why is the assessment of students' capabilities the 'core business' of universities? Why do assessment requirements become the meta-narrative of university life?What are the main sources of student frustration with assessment arrangements? How do these contribute to global assessments of the 'fairness' of these arrangements? Why does 'fairness' matter so much? What is the link between students' perceptions of the fairness of assessment and their satisfaction with their university studies?What do students do when they think they have been treated unfairly? What factors influence how they react? What are the implications of their reactions ' for themselves, their teachers and the university?What can be done to promote fair assessment at university? Who should be responsible for making university assessment fairer? What changes are possible?This book goes beyond the superficial consideration of university assessment as a 'toolkit' of tips and tricks by unravelling the underlying issues that really count ' what is considered fair assessment and what is not. The book develops the argument that students want the opportunity to demonstrate their capabilities and to have those capabilities recognised. Ultimately, this book aims to provide the knowledge base to better understand students' thinking about university assessment and to inform the development of interventions to improve assessment policies and practices in higher education.

Author Biography

Nerilee RA Flint is the Education Advisor Student Equity at the Australian National University, Canberra. Bruce Johnson is Professor of Education at the School of Education, University of South Australia.

Table of Contents

List of figuresp. ix
Forewordp. xi
Acknowledgementsp. xv
The importance of fair assessmentp. 1
Introductionp. 1
Constructions of fairnessp. 3
The policy context: The rise of the neo-liberal universityp. 6
The student perspectivep. 8
Structure of the bookp. 9
Who this book is forp. 11
Conclusionp. 12
Researching students' perceptions of fair assessment: A qualitative approachp. 13
Ethics and consentp. 14
Recruitment of participantsp. 14
Profile of studentsp. 15
Interviewsp. 16
The use of vignettesp. 17
Pinal rounds of interviewsp. 19
Transcriptionp. 19
Reflective journalp. 20
The use of literature in this researchp. 20
Category developmentp. 21
Initial themesp. 21
Determining the core categoryp. 22
Development of a basic social processp. 22
Measures to ensure the integrity of the theoryp. 23
Does the theory fit?p. 23
Does the theory work?p. 24
Is the theory relevant?p. 25
Is the theory modifiable?p. 25
Conclusionp. 26
Sources of frustration with assessmentp. 27
The problem of frustration with assessmentp. 28
Sources of frustrationp. 29
Demonstrating capabilityp. 37
Opportunity to demonstrate capabilityp. 37
Whether capability has been recognizedp. 38
Conclusionp. 38
ciding the fairness of assessmentp. 41
Comparison with recent assessment outcomesp. 43
Discussion and comparison with othersp. 44
Effortv47
Comparison with personal expectations and past experiencesp. 51
Level playing fieldp. 52
The nature and extent of feedback about assessmentp. 64
The balance and variety of assessment tasksp. 67
The relevance of assessment tasksp. 73
Skilful teachersp. 75
Teachers displaying a caring attitudep. 82
Conclusionp. 90
sponding to unfair assessmentp. 91
Emotional reactionsp. 91
Response modifiersp. 95
Students' level of desperationp. 96
Students' concern about ramificationsp. 100
Students' level of maturityp. 103
Students' self beliefsp. 105
Students' perception of teachers' approachabilityp. 110
Students' knowledge of processp. 112
Responsep. 115
Taking actionp. 116
Opting outp. 123
Survivingp. 124
Variation of responses and how they feed back into the process of demonstrating capabilityp. 128
Conclusionp. 129
Making assessment fairerp. 131
Insights into students' views on assessmentp. 131
Recommendationsp. 132
Course coordinatorsp. 133
Teachersp. 135
Programme teamsp. 142
Universitiesp. 144
Further researchp. 146
Conclusionp. 147
Glossaryp. 149
Bibliographyp. 151
Indexp. 163
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