Assessing Skills and Practice (Key Guides for Effective Teaching in Higher Education)

Assessing Skills and Practice outlines how to ensure fair, consistent and reliable assessment of practical activities. With a particular focus on formative feedback and its role in helping students to understand what is required of them, this guide is packed with advice, examples and case studies covering the key areas, including: assessing across the arts, humanities and sciences – from labwork and clinical practice to dance assessing oral work using feedback ensuring inclusive and fair assessment. This volume is an ideal introduction for new or part-time lecturers and will also be valued by experienced teachers who are new to this area of assessment or who want to improve their current practice.