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Contents
About the authors x
Foreword xi
Preface xii
Acknowledgements xiv
Introduction to Part A 3
1. The link between assessment and learning 9
Approaches to learning 9
Unintended outcomes 11
Side effects of assessment 12
2. Roles and purposes of assessment 15
Maintaining standards 15
Students - the primary stakeholders? 16
Validity and reliability 17
Formative assessment 18
Summative assessment 18
Balancing formative with summative assessment 20
3. The grading game: norm- and criterion-referenced assessment 21
Norm-referenced grading 22
Mixed messages 24
Moving towards professional judgements of performance 25
Grading categories: standards and criteria 26
4. Valid assessment 29
The big picture: core skills and attributes 29
The middle picture: disciplinary differences 30
The little picture: ensuring alignment 31
What individual assessors can do 32

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Student Assessment Handbook: New Directions in Traditional and Online Assessment. Contributors: Chris Morgan - author, Lee Dunn - author, Sharon Parry - author, Meg O' Reilly - author. Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 2003. Page Number: v.
    
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