Discuss: If Essays Are Dead, Then Where Does That Leave Everything Else? A Response to: Shirley Alexander's "Buying Essays: How to Make Sure Assessment Is Authentic"

Autor/in	McQueen, Kelvin
Titel	Discuss: If Essays Are Dead, Then Where Does That Leave Everything Else? A Response to: Shirley Alexander's "Buying Essays: How to Make Sure Assessment Is Authentic"
Quelle	In: Australian Universities' Review, 57 (2015) 1, S.69-71 (3 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0818-8068
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Foreign Countries; Performance Based Assessment; Cheating; Plagiarism; Essays; College Students; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Leistungsermittlung; Prellen; Plagiat; Essay; Aufsatzunterricht; Collegestudent; Australien
Abstract	Professor Shirley Alexander is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Teaching, Learning & Equity) at the University of Technology, Sydney. On 12 November 2014, an article of hers appeared in "The Conversation": "Buying essays: how to make sure assessment is authentic." That article traverses, in an abbreviated way, three significant concerns about university assessment tasks. Those three concerns, in sum, apparently render essays "dead" "as the primary form of assessment". In this article, the author would like to set out and respond to Alexander's objections to the essay form. The author of this article will also make some observations about what essays are good for and why. (ERIC).
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Update	2020/1/01