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Clarifying Assessment: Developing Official Typologies And Instructions For Forms Of Assessment In Law, Alex Steel
Clarifying Assessment: Developing Official Typologies And Instructions For Forms Of Assessment In Law, Alex Steel
Alex Steel
Law students are expected to complete a range of assessment throughout their degree, and do so with varying levels of success. Increasingly, research has examined the ways in which student performance can be enhanced. While much focus has been on how to best to provide students with feedback that can be acted on, this paper examines the extent to which standardisation of the way in which assessment tasks are described could assist students. The use of the same name to describe different variations of an assessment task can create confusion for students and for new members of staff. Research demonstrates …