The pivotal role of student assessment in work-integrated learning
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Boud, D., Costley, C., Cranfield, S., Desai, J., Nikolou-Walker, E., Nottingham, P. and Wilson, D. 2023. The pivotal role of student assessment in work-integrated learning. Higher Education Research & Development. 42 (6), pp. 1323-1337. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2022.2152981
Type | Article |
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Title | The pivotal role of student assessment in work-integrated learning |
Authors | Boud, D., Costley, C., Cranfield, S., Desai, J., Nikolou-Walker, E., Nottingham, P. and Wilson, D. |
Abstract | Work-integrated learning (WIL) is proliferating in university courses across many countries. Like many educational practices, students’ experience of it is shaped by the assessment processes adopted. Does assessment support or inhibit what WIL seeks to foster? To explore how students experience assessment in WIL, a small-scale investigation was undertaken across faculties in a UK university. Students who had recently undertaken WIL in contexts where it was either tightly coupled or loosely coupled to their programme of study undertook a drawing-stimulated interview about their placement and the role of assessment within it. A thematic analysis was used to discern key themes in student responses. Key issues identified were the importance of assessment in scaffolding learning, the multiple roles of university and workplace staff in assessment, the extent to which assessment practices promote students seeing themselves as becoming practitioners and the reflexive effects of assessment on learning. The paper discusses the implications of these issues for the design of WIL activities. |
Keywords | placements; assessment; work-integrated learning; student experience |
Sustainable Development Goals | 4 Quality education |
Middlesex University Theme | Creativity, Culture & Enterprise |
Research Group | Work and Learning Research Centre |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Journal | Higher Education Research & Development |
ISSN | 0729-4360 |
Electronic | 1469-8366 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 19 Dec 2022 |
18 Aug 2023 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 17 Feb 2023 |
Submitted | 20 Apr 2022 |
Accepted | 06 Nov 2022 |
Output status | Published |
Publisher's version | License |
Copyright Statement | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2022.2152981 |
Web of Science identifier | WOS:000899884000001 |
Language | English |
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