ABSTRACT A typical practice of assessment in engineering studies, especially on large
Bachelor level courses, is a final exam at the end of the course. This practice is problematic …

This paper presents a study on continuous assessment (CA) in a first-year engineering
course at a South African University. CA is widely used to encourage active learning and …

Formative assessment can serve as a catalyst for increased student effort and student
learning. Yet, many engineering degree programmes are dominated by summative …

This paper presents the effects of a continuous assessment process on mechanical
engineering education at Kuwait University. This process has been in place for the last five …

Research and practice is presented on the use of student assessments as part of reflective
practice to evaluate teaching. Case studies are presented in the delivery of Engineering …

In this paper, the effect of continuous assessment on the learning outcomes of two chemical
engineering courses is studied over a several-year period. Average grades and passing …

This paper attempts to study the relationship between results of formative and summative
assessments. Generally, there is limited research work available in this subject, most …

The aim of this article is three-fold:(a) to present an example of best practices in formative
assessment in university instruction, offering three different methods of learning and …

In this paper, an objective analysis of the continuous assessment under the application of
the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) in four courses of different Schools at the …

Assessment clearly guides students' learning. Learner-centered assessment has been
observed to attract more attention lately [1] and one way to guide learning towards deeper …