A testing issue: key skills assessment in Australia

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Title: A testing issue: key skills assessment in Australia
Author(s): Clerehan, Rosemary; Chanock, Kate; Moore, Tim; Prince, Anne
Abstract: Maintenance of academic standards, assessment and monitoring are key tasks for tertiary education, as the system attempts to meet government targets for universal participation. Tertiary education therefore demands more attention to the measurement of outcomes. However, the use of a graduate skills assessment test, we contend--particularly in the form this currently takes in Australia--implies a limited sense of the value added by a university education. We question the validity of national testing both on grounds of its suitability to assess the skills cultivated by university study and on grounds of equity and cultural inclusiveness.
Publication type: Journal article
Source: Teaching in Higher Education, Vol. 8, no. 2 (April 2003), pp. 279 - 284
Publication year: 2003
FOR Code(s): 130103 Higher Education
Keyword(s): Australia; Graduate skills assessment test; Higher education; Learning; Teaching
Publisher: Routledge
ISSN: 1356-2517
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1356251032000052500
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