This text provides higher education teachers with an overview of the many approaches to setting, marking and reviewing coursework, assignments, tests and examinations used in programmes for certificates, diplomas, first degrees or higher degrees. It discusses the influence of each on students.

Kevin Cox, Bradford Imrie, Allen Miller

Section A The place of assessment in higher education: purposes of higher education; functions of assessment; cognitive educational objectives, learning outcomes and levels of testing; measuring the outcomes of non-cognitive objectives; stages of intellectual and ethical development. Section B Some assessment methods: timing of assessment tasks; essays; theses; objective tests; assessing group projects; practical skills and field work; designing a final examination. Section C Examining assessment: reporting on assessment; evaluation of assessment procedures; the issue of academic (dis)honesty; current and future developments.