Assessment and learning: Summative approaches

Hall, Kathy and Sheehy, Kieron (2006). Assessment and learning: Summative approaches. In: Arthur, James; Granger, Teresa and Wray, David eds. Learning to Teach in the Primary School. London, UK: Routledge/Taylor and Francis, pp. 343–356.

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Abstract

Assessment means different things in different contexts and it is carried out for different purposes. There is no simple answer to what it is or why we do it. Assessment is not a simple or innocent term. Assessing learning is not a neutral or value-free activity - it is always bound up with attitudes, values, beliefs and sometimes prejudices on the part of those carrying out the assessment and on the part of those being assessed.

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• Item ORO ID
• 7834
• Item Type
• Book Section
• ISBN
• 0-415-35928-7, 978-0-415-35928-3
• Keywords
• assessment
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS)
  Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport > Childhood, Youth and Sport > Childhood and Youth
  Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport > Childhood, Youth and Sport
  Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport
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• Childhood and Youth
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• Depositing User
• Kieron Sheehy