Assessment in FE
A Practical Guide for Lecturers
Published on 20. May 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
136 pages
978-0-8264-8738-4 (ISBN)
Description
Well-written and accessible, this guide should prove essential reading for all FE lecturers.This is a general introduction to unravelling the maze of assessment in FE. Andy Armitage and Mandy Renwick provide readers with helpful hints and strategies for answering the key questions, including why, what, how and where to assess?"The Essential FE Toolkit" is Continuum's new series on further education (FE) for teachers and college leaders. The series boasts 24 specialist, fact-filled volumes written by FE experts with significant knowledge and experience in their individual fields. Competitively priced, compact and accessible, each book should prove essential reading for FE lecturers and managers.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
165 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-8738-4 (9780826487384)
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Persons
Andy Armitage is Head of the Department of Post-Compulsory Education at Canterbury Christ Church. He is a consultant to the DfES, developing frameworks and materials for FE initial teacher training and an external examiner for the Greenwich University PGCE/Cert Ed. Mandy Renwick is a teacher trainer and manager of PGCE / Certificate in Education programmes in the post-compulsory sector at The University of Wales Institute, Cardiff.
Content
Foreword; 1. Why Assess?; 2. What to Assess - Content and Principles?; 3. Assessment for Learning; 4. How to Assess; 5. Where to Assess; 6. Who Assesses?; 7. Recording and Reporting Achievement; 8. Assessment in Society; 9. Frameworks and Futures - Qualification and Assesment Reform; 10. Summary - Assessment in FE; Appendices and Bibliography.