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Assessing students\' written work : marking essays and reports / Catherine Haines.

By: Haines, Catherine, 1962-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Effective teaching in higher education: Publisher: New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2004Description: x, 151 p. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0415307201 ; 041530721X .Subject(s): English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching | Report writing -- Study and teaching (Higher) | Grading and marking (Students) | Report writing -- Evaluation | College prose -- EvaluationDDC classification: 808.042
Contents:
Introduction -- Part 1: You and Assessment -- Your role in assessment -- Why and how do we assess? -- What exactly is assessment? -- Time management -- Issues in language and culture -- Part 2: You and your assessment in the disciplines -- Assessing essays -- Assessing reports and projects -- Assessing practicals and fieldwork -- Assessing problem classes and problem-based learning -- Assessing in examinations.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This practical and realistic book is designed to help practitioners who wish to improve their effectiveness in assessing a large and a diverse range of students. It will help them to:

clarify their role in assessment gain confidence on issues and terms and consider variations between discipline compare and extend their current range of solutions to common problems with advice from practitioners consider in more depth essays, reports and projects, plagiarism and language.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-147) and index.

Introduction -- Part 1: You and Assessment -- Your role in assessment -- Why and how do we assess? -- What exactly is assessment? -- Time management -- Issues in language and culture -- Part 2: You and your assessment in the disciplines -- Assessing essays -- Assessing reports and projects -- Assessing practicals and fieldwork -- Assessing problem classes and problem-based learning -- Assessing in examinations.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Section 1 You and Assessment
  • 1 Your Role in Assessment
  • 2 Why and How We Assess?
  • 3 What Exactly is Assessment
  • 4 Assessing More Students More Quickly and Effectively
  • 5 Issues in Language and Culture
  • Section 2 You and Your Assessment Tasks
  • 6 Assessing Essays
  • 7 Assessing Reports and Projects
  • 8 Assessing Practicals and Field Work
  • 9 Assessing Problem Classes and Problem Based Learning
  • 10 Assessing in Examinations