The present system of working for examinations by students is one which is doing a great deal of harm in every way.
From a 1883 letter by J. S. Haldane to his mother.
The present system of working for examinations by students is one which is doing a great deal of harm in every way.
From a 1883 letter by J. S. Haldane to his mother.
Did you see the article on HE in Britain in yesterday’s Guardian? Quoting from it:
Students, he says, work hardest when there is a high volume of formative-only assessment and oral feedback – typically writing essays that don’t count towards their degree result, but for which they have to cover a range of material. This is the Oxford and Cambridge model, and used to be the case at most universities 30 years ago.
They do less work when there is a high volume of summative assessment, that is, coursework or exams that count towards the degree mark, the pattern in new universities. They do least of all when there is relatively little assessment of either kind, which is what tends to happen in Russell group universities other than Oxbridge, and which may explain the low hours of study in some of them, he says.
Sorry Dr. R. — I pasted in a wrong URL for the Sir Ken Robinson video, from another open window.
The correct URL to “The Conflict between Education and Creavity by Sir Ken Robinson” follows:
https://pathwaytohappiness.com/happiness/2007/05/20/the-conflict-between-education-and-creavity-by-sir-ken-robinson/