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Hudson, Jane; Bloxham, Sue; den Outer, Birgit; Price, Margaret – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
Since their introduction in the 1990s, explicit standards documents have pervaded higher education assessment--success likely linked to their compatibility with constructive alignment and quality assurance regimes. Researchers, however, criticise that such documents are based on a misconception of standards as explicit and absolute, when in fact…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Higher Education, Quality Assurance, Accountability
Bloxham, Sue; Price, Margaret – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
In a context of international concern about academic standards, the practice of external examining is widely admired for its role in defending standards. Yet a contradiction exists between this faith in examining and continuing concerns about standards. This article argues that external examining rests on assumptions about standards which are…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Assessment, Higher Education, Quality Assurance