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Making judgements about students making work: Lecturers’ assessment practices in art and design

Orr, Susan and Bloxham, Sue (2013) Making judgements about students making work: Lecturers’ assessment practices in art and design. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 12 (2-3). pp. 234-253. ISSN 1474-0222

Type of Research: Article
Creators: Orr, Susan and Bloxham, Sue
Description:

This research study explores the assessment practices in two higher education art and design departments. The key aim of this research was to explore art and design studio assessment practices as lived and experienced by art and design lecturers. This work draws on two bodies of pre-existing research. Firstly this study adopted methodological approaches that have been employed to good effect to explore assessment in text based subjects (think aloud) and moderation mark agreement (observation). Secondly the study builds on existing research into the assessment of creative practice. By applying thinking aloud methodologies in a creative practice assessment context the authors seek to illuminate the ‘in practice’, rather than espoused, assessment approaches adopted. The analysis suggests that lecturers in the study employed three macro conceptions of quality to support the judgement process, namely the demonstration of significant learning over time, the demonstration of effective studentship and the presentation of meaningful art/design work.

Official Website: http://ahh.sagepub.com/content/12/2-3/234
Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: art and design, assessment, Crit, higher education, judgement, think aloud protocol, teaching and learning research
Publisher/Broadcaster/Company: Sage Publications
Your affiliations with UAL: Other Affiliations > The Teaching and Learning Exchange
Date: April 2013
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1177/1474022212467605
Date Deposited: 01 Oct 2013 11:00
Last Modified: 28 Apr 2017 05:59
Item ID: 6049
URI: https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/6049

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