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Video for assessment

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I have always believed that assessment should be primarily for the benefit of the student, not the teacher. I concede that teachers need to know how their students are progressing, and this is very much a part of the assessment process. However, assessment of learning is not as important as assessment for learning.

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The point of no return

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The previous post featured Abraham Maslow''s Hierarchy of Human Needs. Students should also be encouraged to reflect on their own experiences, to critically evaluate their own work through self assessment, and supported as they attempt to improve their approaches and attitudes toward learning. Unported License.

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(re)Designing learning in a digital world

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I deliberately inserted a (re) in front of the Designing theme, because I wanted to make it clear that we need to redesign and re-engineer many of our current practices in higher education, including course design, assessment and student support. Unported License. Things are changing, and so is the nature of knowledge.

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Who's in charge?

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Student centred learning encourages learners to develop an internal locus of control where anything is possible, and where in progressive versions, they choose what they will learn, how they will learn it and even how they will be assessed. Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs 27. Unported License. Koffka Gestalt theory 21.

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Self fulfilling prophecies

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Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs 27. Rotter Locus of Control Photo by Dhillan Chandramowli on Flickr Self fulfilling prophecies by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Koffka Gestalt theory 21. Köhler Insight learning 22.