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Aiming for agency and authenticity in assessment

Author: Christopher Harrison

Published in: Perspectives on Medical Education | Issue 6/2018

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Assessment designers have a lot to consider. As well as the traditional psychometric principles of validity and reliability, an assessment’s educational impact is, appropriately, now receiving increasing attention. Unfortunately, the impact is often not positive. Although the need to ensure ‘assessment for learning’ is frequently mentioned, in practice the summative assessment culture is often so dominant and powerful that it acts as a barrier to learners processing feedback in any meaningful way [1]. …

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Title: Aiming for agency and authenticity in assessment
Author: Christopher Harrison
Publication date: 01-12-2018
Publisher: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
Published in: Perspectives on Medical Education / Issue 6/2018
Print ISSN: 2212-2761
Electronic ISSN: 2212-277X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40037-018-0484-z

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