Principles underpinning graded assessment in VET: a critique of prevailing perceptions
To help achieve national consistency of assessment and reporting in the Australian vocational education and training sector, there is a need to develop a set of national principles for graded performance assessment. This paper challenges a number of prevailing principles from both a theoretical and assessment perspective, namely that grades must be criterion referenced (Williams & Bateman, 2003) [indexed at TD/TNC 71.04], meaningful (Rumsey, 2003) [indexed at TD/ANTA 75.21] and applied once competence has been achieved (Williams & Bateman, 2003). This paper argues that the use of generic crite ... Show more
Authors: Gillis, Shelley; Griffin, Patrick
Published: Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Charles Sturt University, 2005
Resource type: Article
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