Assessment Standards: The Role of Communities of Practice and the Scholarship of Assessment

Autor/in	Price, Margaret
Titel	Assessment Standards: The Role of Communities of Practice and the Scholarship of Assessment
Quelle	In: Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 30 (2005) 3, S.215-230 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0260-2938
Schlagwörter	Standard Setting; Student Evaluation; Academic Standards; Business Administration Education; Evaluation Methods; Higher Education; Grading; Scholarship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Standardisierung; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Notengebung; Scholarships; Stipendium
Abstract	This article considers the methods and difficulties of establishing, sharing and applying assessment standards within module teams working in a business school. Against a background of increasing reliance on explicit knowledge to establish standards in the HE sector the study looks at ways in which staff within module teams attempted to reach a common view of assessment standards through sharing tacit knowledge in order to make consistent judgements about student work. In so doing it identifies and questions the assumptions, myths and beliefs that bolster the culture around standard setting and marking/grading. The paper questions whether academic communities of practice provide an adequate framework to support the sharing of assessment standards. In particular it argues that the scholarship of assessment would support the development of a specialist assessment and assessment standards discourse within communities that could, in turn, support the sharing of assessment standards. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10