Continuing our series of Sally Brown's 5 big ideas to engage students in assessment - here is the second installment. If this triggers any reaction for you then please add a comment!
Sally's BIG IDEA No. 2
We need to set good patterns of behaviour early
Students rarely respond positively to exhortation or vague threats of poor marks: we need to change the assessment practices so that they make routine these behaviours very early on in a student’s HE career. Yorke (1999) encourages us to believe that the first six weeks of the first semester of the first year are crucial and that how we assess within that period can make a difference to student success or failure. Avoidance of assessment in Semester One doesn't solve the problem.
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