Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education

This article argues for an interactive model of competence (Hodkinson, 1992) as a basis for the development and use of competence statements in the context of an initial qualification for lecturers in post-compulsory education and training (PCET). It does this by contrasting competences framed in re…

The debate concerning quality assurance in higher education is frequently conducted in terms originating outside the culture of academic institutions, such as fitness for purpose' and ‘meeting customer expectations’, which are often experienced as jarring with traditional conceptions of higher educa…

Recent developments in British higher education have included taking a close look at work-based learning, in particular its assessment (and its integration within academic programmes of study). However, two questions which are still continuously being asked are (a) to what extent are assessments of …