ERIC Number: EJ950338
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
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Integrative Assessment: Reframing Assessment Practice for Current and Future Learning
Crisp, Geoffrey T.
Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, v37 n1 p33-43 2012
The requirement to provide timely formative tasks that are designed to facilitate student learning and autonomy has provoked a wider examination of the role of assessment in higher education and encouraged further investigation of the alignment of learning, teaching and assessment in curriculum design frameworks. Many current authors have proposed that the primary purpose of assessment is to enhance current and future learning and that current practice tends to overemphasise the importance of assessment for progression and certification purposes. This paper proposes that a clearer distinction be made between assessment tasks designed to facilitate and test current learning through the use of formative and summative assessments, and those tasks primarily designed to enhance future learning, which could be better termed integrative assessments. This distinction would allow students and teachers to have greater clarity around the proposed outcomes and reward mechanisms associated with assessment tasks and feedback. This paper proposes that teachers should strive to incorporate four different types of assessment tasks throughout a programme of study, namely diagnostic, formative, integrative and summative tasks, and that the outcomes and reward mechanisms for different assessment types be explained more clearly to students. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Curriculum Design, Student Evaluation, Rewards, Educational Practices, Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Achievement Tests, Academic Ability, Alignment (Education), Alternative Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education
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Language: English
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