The requirement to provide timely formative tasks that are designed to facilitate student
learning and autonomy has provoked a wider examination of the role of assessment in …

There has been a formative assessment revolution that has swept our compulsory
schooling, and is about to descend on higher education. It has the potential to make major …

Assessment is a critical aspect of higher education because it has a range of powerful
impacts on what staff and students do and how universities operate. Underpinned by …

Students are strategic as never before, and they allocate their time and focus their attention
on what they believe will be assessed and what they believe will gain good grades …

How Assessment Supports Learning: Learning-oriented Assessment in Action invites
teachers in higher education to rethink the purposes of assessment and to revise their …

This paper proposes a model of learning-oriented assessment to inform assessment theory
and practice. The model focuses on three interrelated processes: the assessment tasks …

Assessment for learning is increasingly part of accepted orthodoxy, with massive
government funding in England, is central to national assessment in Wales, and an export to …

The impact of innovative assessment on student experience in higher education is a
neglected research topic. This represents an important gap in the literature-given debate …

Formative assessment is the process by which teachers provide information to students
during the learning process to modify their understanding and self-regulation. An important …

A distinction is often made in the literature about “assessment of learning” and “assessment
for learning” attributing a formative function to the latter while the former takes a summative …