How shall they be judged? Notes and sources on assessment

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Abstract
Various obstacles to changing assessment procedures are built in to the structure of many higher education institutions. Three views of examinations are: radical (wanting to see the current system abolished), conservative (wanting to see it preserved), and liberal (wanting to see it reformed). In considering how examinations can be changed, five dimensions of assessment are presented: complexity, weighting, time allowed, task distribution over time and predictability. It is important to specify objectives, for only then can assessment have logical meaning, but they should not be too rigid, trivial or over‐constraining. Students should be more involved in the assessment procedure. Profile assessment seems a good idea.

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