Encouraging learning through external engineering assessment
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Article Title | Encouraging learning through external engineering assessment |
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ERA Journal ID | 40310 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Parsons, D. |
Journal Title | Australasian Journal of Engineering Education |
Journal Citation | 13 (2), pp. 21-30 |
Number of Pages | 10 |
Year | 2007 |
Place of Publication | Melbourne, Australia |
ISSN | 1324-5821 |
1325-4340 | |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.engineersmedia.com.au/journals/aaee/a2index.html |
Abstract | Examinations are commonly used at the end of teaching periods as major components of assessment for external engineering students because they are the only assessment mechanism which examiners can be reasonably sure are completed by students acting alone. However the literature suggests that examinations are flawed instruments of assessment for many reasons, not least because they encourage poor approaches to learning but also because they no not allow useful feedback to students. This paper reports on a trial of assignment-based assessment, details of which are sufficiently complex and diverse that they encourage individual work by students, both in course content and in other graduate attributes. |
Keywords | assessment; examinations; graduate attributes; student learning |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390303. Higher education |
390113. Science, technology and engineering curriculum and pedagogy | |
390402. Education assessment and evaluation | |
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Byline Affiliations | Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9y861/encouraging-learning-through-external-engineering-assessment
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