Developing Effective Assessment in Higher Education: A Practical Guide

By Sue Bloxham *, P. Boyd. 2007

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Contract cheating and assessment design: exploring the relationship (2018, background): “Bloxham and Boyd (2007) recommend nine assessment strategies to minimise plagiarism, and there has been an assumption that these may also be useful to address contract cheating.”
Student performativity in higher education: converting learning as a private space into a public performance (2015, background): “This sub-division of learning is widely acknowledged to have led to the expansion in the volume of assessment (Bloxham & Boyd, 2007).”
Does continuous assessment in higher education support student learning? (2012, background): “The different purposes of assessment overlap or, at times, are in conflict with each other (Bloxham and Boyd 2007; Brown et al. 1997).”
Improving engagement: the use of ‘Authentic self-and peer-assessment for learning’ to enhance the student learning experience (2013, background): “According to Bloxham and Boyd (2007), there are four purposes of assessment: certification, student learning, quality assurance and lifelong learning capacity.”
Student perceptions of hidden messages in teacher written feedback (2013, background): “Quality feedback supports learning by revealing any gap between students’ current performance and expected levels of achievement and by assisting them to take actions to narrow that gap (e.g. Bitchener, 2008; Bloxham and Boyd, 2007; Hattie & Timperley, 2007).”