University teachers' perception of their assessment practices

What is it about?

This paper presents the opinion of university teachers with their assessment practices. Special attention is paid to assessment tasks developed to monitor students learning and those designed to promote student participation in the assessment process. Teachers’ perceptions of the importance, perceived competence and implementation of such assessment tasks are considered throughout the paper.

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Why is it important?

Responses showed that lecturers assigned importance to the monitoring of student learning and felt reasonably capable of implementing assessment tasks for that purpose. Much less importance was placed on student participation in such assessments; lecturers perceived their abilities to implement assessment tasks to promote student participation to be poor and they rarely used such tasks.