How finely grained does summative assessment need to be?

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 677-689

  Yorke, Mantz ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment; Degree performance; Grading system; Honours classification; Outcomes

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955916856     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075070903243118     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Brumfield, C. 2004. Current trends in grades and grading practices in higher education: Results of the 2004 AACRAO survey. Washington, DC: American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.
2. Dalziel, J. 1998. Using marks to assess student performance: Some problems and alternatives. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education 23, no. 4: 351-66.
3. European Commission. 2009. ECTS users' guide. Brussels: European Commission. http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-policy/doc/ects/guide_en.pdf (accessed July 14, 2009).
4. Gigerenzer, G., P. Todd, and the ABC Research Group. 1999. Simple heuristics that make us smart. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
5. Knight, P.T. 2002. Summative assessment in higher education: Practices in disarray. Studies in Higher Education 27, no. 3: 275-86.
6. Milton, O., H.R. Pollio, and J. Eison. 1986. Making sense of college grades. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
7. Sadler, D.R. 2009. Transforming holistic assessment and grading into a vehicle for learning. In Assessment, learning and judgement in higher education, ed. G. Joughin, 45-63. Dordrecht: Springer.
8. Universities UK and Guild HE. 2007. Beyond the honours degree classification: The Burgess Group final report. London: Universities UK and Guild HE.
9. Yorke, M. 2008. Grading student achievement in higher education: Signals and shortcomings. Abingdon: Routledge.
10. Yorke, M., H. Woolf, M. Stowell, R. Allen, C. Haines, M. Redding, D. Scurry, G. Taylor-Russell, W. Turnbull, and L. Walker. 2008. Enigmatic variations: Honours degree assessment regulations in the UK. Higher Education Quarterly 62, no. 3: 157-80.