Reading list: assessment

Assessment in higher education:

Useful references and further reading

  • Bearman, et al. (2017) How University Teachers Design Assessments: A Cross-Disciplinary Study. Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 74(1), pp.49–64.
  • Bloxham, S. and Boyd, P. (2007) Developing effective assessment in higher education: a practical guide, Maidenhead:  Open University Press.
  • Boud, D. (1995) Enhancing learning through self-assessment, London: Routledge.
  • Brown, S. and Knight, P. (1994) Assessing learners in higher education: London: Kogan Page.
  • Brown, S., Race, P. and Smith, B. (2005) 500 Tips on Assessment: 2nd edition, London: Routledge.
  • Brown, S., Rust, C. and Gibbs, G. (1994) Strategies for diversifying assessment, Oxford: OCSD.
  • Carless, D. (2015) Exploring learning-oriented assessment processes. Higher Education, 69(6), p.963.
  • Carless, D & Boud, D. (2018) The development of student feedback literacy: enabling uptake of feedback. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, pp.1315–1325.
  • Bryan, C., & Clegg, K. (Eds.) (2019). Innovative Assessment in Higher Education: A Handbook for Academic Practitioners. Routledge.
  • Dawson, P. & Sutherland-Smith, W. (2018) Can markers detect contract cheating? Results from a pilot study. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 43(2), pp.286–293.
  • Ferrell, G. (2014) Electronic management of assessment (EMA); a landscape review, Bristol: JISC http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/5599/1/EMA_REPORT.pdf
  • Flint, N. R and Johnson, B. (2011) Towards fairer university assessment: recognising the concerns of students, London: Routledge.
  • Gibbs, G. (1999) Using assessment strategically to change the way students learn, in Brown, S. and Glasner, A. (eds.) Assessment Matters in Higher Education: Choosing and Using Diverse Approaches, Maidenhead: SRHE/Open University Press.
  • Gibbs, G. (2008) Designing assessment to support student learning, keynote at Leeds Met Staff Development Festival.
  • Gibbs, G. (2010) Using assessment to support student learning, Leeds: Leeds Met Press.
  • Hamilton, D., Qian, D. and Hinton, L. (2008) International students: does attendance as an indicator of involvement correlate with assessment performance?, Yeppoon, Queensland, Australia: Lifelong Learning: Reflecting on Successes and Framing Futures: Keynote and refereed papers from the 5th International Lifelong Learning Conference, Central Queensland University, pp.188-194.
  • HEA (2012) A Marked Improvement: transforming assessment in higher education, York: Higher Education Academy. (http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/assessment/A_Marked_Improvement.pdf
  • Huxham, M. (2007) Fast and effective feedback: are model answers the answer?, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, Vol. 32, No. 6, pp. 601–611
  • Nicol, D (2013) Good designs for written feedback for students. In  Wilbert McKeachie and Marilla Svinicki  Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College
  • and University Teachers (2009), 13th Edition, Houghton Mifflin, New York. 109-125.
  • Pickford, R. and Brown, S. (2006) Assessing skills and practice, London: Routledge.
  • Race, P. (2020) Chapter Two in The Lecturers Toolkit: 5th edition, London: Routledge.
  • Race, P. (2014) Making Learning Happen: 3rd edition, London: Sage.
  • Sadler, D. R. (1989) Formative assessment and the design of instructional systems, Instructional Science 18, 119-144.
  • Sadler, D. R. (2013). Opening up feedback: Teaching learners to see. In Merry, S., Price, M., Carless, D., & Taras, M. (Eds.) Reconceptualising feedback in higher education: Developing dialogue with students. (Ch. 5, 54‑63). London: Routledge.
  • Sambell, K., McDowell, L. and Brown, S. (1997) But is it fair? An exploratory study of student perceptions of the consequent validity of assessment, Studies in Educational Evaluation 23 (4) pp.349-371.
  • Sambell, K. (2013) Engaging Students Through Assessment, In Dunne, E. And Owen, D (eds) The Student Engagement Handbook: Practice in Higher Education, Bingley, UK: Emerald.
  • Sambell, K., Brown, S. and Graham, L. (2017) Chapter 5 in Professionalism in Practice: key directions in higher education learning, teaching and assessment. London, New York, Palgrave Macmillan
  • Sambell, K., Brown, S. and Race, P. (2017) Commenting Constructively on assessed work available at https://staff.napier.ac.uk/services/dlte/ENhance/Documents/Quick%20Guides/1%20Commenting%20Constructively%20Quick%20Guide.pdf
  • Tai, J. et al., 2017. Developing evaluative judgement: enabling students to make decisions about the quality of work. Higher Education, pp.1–15.
  • Winstone, N. and Carless, D. (2020) Designing effective feedback processes in higher education: A learning-focused approach. Routledge.
  • Yorke, M. (1999) Leaving Early: Undergraduate Non-completion in Higher Education, Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Yorke, M. and Longden, B. (2004) Retention and Student Success in Higher Education, Maidenhead: Open University Press.