Student Self-assessment: Assessment, Learning and Empowerment
Publisher: Research Publishing Services
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9789810894429
Description: Student self-assessment as a practice and as a goal in higher education is generally emphasised for academics. This book researches specifically what academics emphasise in their experiences of student self-assessment. The investigation focused on the different ways academics described their understanding and practice of self-assessment. These academics’ ways of experiencing student self-assessment are subsequently discussed in terms of assessment, learning and power.

Whilst there is much emphasis on student self-assessment as a practice and as a goal in higher education, there is less attention paid to how it is understood and used by academics. This book is about student self-assessment from the perspectives of academics in higher education who had provided their students with opportunities to judge their learning. The investigation focused on the different ways that student selfassessment was experienced by sixteen academics from a variety of disciplines and programs of study. The consequent research findings describe a structure of progressive awareness of meanings and practices of student self-assessment.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1: An Overview of Student Self-Assessment in Higher Education; title: Chapter 2: Student Self-Assessment in Terms of Assessment; title: Chapter 3: Student Self-Assessment in Terms of Learning; title: Chapter 4: Student Self-Assessment in Terms of Power; title: Chapter 5: A Phenomenographic Approach to Researching Student Self-assessment; title: Chapter 6: The Phenomenographic Investigation of Academics’ Ways of Experiencing Student Self-assessment; title: Chapter 7: The Outcome Space of Academics’Ways of Experiencing Student Self-assessment; title: Chapter 8: Revisiting Student Self-assessment in Terms of Assessment, Learning and Power; title: Chapter 9: Towards NewMeanings and Practices of Student Self-Assessment in Higher Education