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Ipsative Assessment and Personal Learning Gain
Gwyneth . Ed(S): Hughes
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Description for Ipsative Assessment and Personal Learning Gain
Hardback. Editor(s): Hughes, Gwyneth. Num Pages: 265 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JNKD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This innovative book offers a new approach to assessment in which learners can follow their own learning journey using cumulative feedback or measurements of distance travelled from different starting points. Education currently mirrors the values and practices of a highly competitive world with testing, grading and monitoring of standards becoming its driving forces. Competition may stimulate high achievers, but may also demotivate or even damage the rest. Ipsative feedback (on progress) and personal learning gain measurements are often hidden. A range of global case studies from school and higher education illustrate four themes: the benefits of ipsative feedback, making good use of learning ... Read more
This innovative book offers a new approach to assessment in which learners can follow their own learning journey using cumulative feedback or measurements of distance travelled from different starting points. Education currently mirrors the values and practices of a highly competitive world with testing, grading and monitoring of standards becoming its driving forces. Competition may stimulate high achievers, but may also demotivate or even damage the rest. Ipsative feedback (on progress) and personal learning gain measurements are often hidden. A range of global case studies from school and higher education illustrate four themes: the benefits of ipsative feedback, making good use of learning ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
265
Condition
New
Number of Pages
265
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137565013
SKU
V9781137565013
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Ref
99-15
About Gwyneth . Ed(S): Hughes
Gwyneth Hughes is a Reader in Higher Education at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK. After starting her career teaching in secondary education, she now has 20 years of experience of teaching, leadership, research and development work in higher education and is still learning. She is author of Ipsative Assessment: Motivation through Marking Progress and a co-author of ... Read more
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