The future of higher education (HE) hangs on innovating our assessment – but are we ready, willing and able?

IF 2.5 Q1 Social Sciences Higher Education Pedagogies Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI:10.1080/23752696.2020.1771610
G. Knight, T. Drysdale
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ABSTRACT Graduates are entering a sociotechnological world, with teaching and assessment needing to reflect that, by shifting from a ‘recall-on-paper’ to ‘do-it-for-real’. With increasing student numbers, it is not feasible to have staff-student ratios and round-the-clock availability required to provide instant feedback and ever-more interactive teaching sessions, so digital solutions are the only option. There is already growing comfort with using computers in formal assessment; however, more work is required to extend beyond performance indicators enabling digital assessments, to addressing how students apply their learning to relevant work-based scenarios. This opinion piece discusses the issues HE currently face to ensure students develop the employability skills that equip them to be proficient in the skills directly related to their degree subject but also transferable to other graduate careers. It raises possible solutions to current technological problems in developing more computer-based assessment, to enable academics to design assessments that develop the capabilities students need.
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高等教育(HE)的未来取决于我们的评估创新——但我们准备好了、愿意和有能力了吗?
摘要毕业生正在进入一个社会技术世界,教学和评估需要通过从“纸上回忆”转变为“真实回忆”来反映这一点。随着学生人数的增加,要求师生比例和全天候的可用性来提供即时反馈和越来越多的互动教学是不可行的,因此数字解决方案是唯一的选择。在正式评估中使用计算机已经越来越令人满意;然而,还需要做更多的工作,以超越绩效指标,实现数字评估,解决学生如何将他们的学习应用于相关的基于工作的场景。这篇观点文章讨论了高等教育目前面临的问题,以确保学生发展就业能力,使他们能够熟练掌握与学位科目直接相关的技能,同时也能转移到其他研究生职业中。它为开发更多基于计算机的评估提供了当前技术问题的可能解决方案,使学术界能够设计开发学生所需能力的评估。
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Higher Education Pedagogies
Higher Education Pedagogies EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-
CiteScore
7.70
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4.00%
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10
审稿时长
13 weeks
期刊介绍: The aim of Higher Education Pedagogies is to identify, promote and publish excellence and innovations in the practice and theory of teaching and learning in and across all disciplines in higher education. The journal will provide an international forum for the sharing, dissemination and discussion of research, experience and perspectives across a wide range of teaching and learning issues. The journal will prove a valuable resource for individuals in the development and enhancement of their own practice, and for institutions in the promotion of the scholarship of teaching and learning. Higher Education Pedagogies will focus on disciplinary pedagogies and learning experiences; the higher education curriculum, i.e. what is taught and how it is developed and enhanced including both skills and knowledge; the delivery of the higher education curriculum; how it is taught and how students learn, and academic development; the role of teaching and learning in the development of academic careers and its place within the profession. Higher Education Pedagogies welcomes papers which are accessible to both specialist and generalist readers and are theoretically and empirically rigorous. Through advancing knowledge of, and practice in, teaching and learning, Higher Education Pedagogies will prove essential reading for all those who wish to stay informed of state-of-the-art teaching and learning developments in higher education. Higher Education Pedagogies is sponsored by the Higher Education Academy.
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