Assessment in the Work Place

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. The Need for Assessment
   1. Methods of Assessment
   2. Performance assessment
   3. Portfolio reviews
   4. Learning contracts
3. When to use a Particular Assessment?
4. Giving and Getting Feedback
   1. Useful tips on giving feedback
   2. Positive feedback
   3. Examples of good feedback
5. Skills for Effective Assessment
6. How to avoid failing
7. References

The Need for Assessment

Students are assessed for a number of reasons, including motivating students (Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development 2006), diagnose students' strengths and weaknesses, enable students identify their strengths and weaknesses (Howard 2006), monitor student progress (Marsh et al. 2005), determine the extent to which students have achieved specific learning objectives, grade student learning (Singh 2006), provide a way to judge when a student is competent to practice (University of Nottingham 2002) or proceed on a course, inform the nature of feedback to students on their progress (Gray 2001), evaluate effectiveness of teaching and plan future teaching to facilitate student progress.