Assessing Students' Written Work: Marking Essays and Reports

Catherine Haines

Assessing Students' Written Work: Marking Essays and Reports

Assessment is one of the most powerful tools in teaching yet it is rarely measured in effort, time, and effectiveness and it is usually done alone and against the clock. This book aims to clarify the concepts and issues that may make assessment difficult for teachers. 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 disciplines, 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.

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