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Current Trends in Assessment

There have been many changes in the approach to assessment in the last 15 years. Moving from a behaviourist to a cognitivist, and then to a constructivist approach to evaluating learning, student assessment now is much less test-driven and more based on evaluating learner performance on authentic kinds of activities.

To get several perspectives on current trends in assessment, explore:

Two quick reference charts denotating direction of change, and reasons for these changes.

A review of trends in assessment, as well as the kinds of evaluations that reflect these current trends from The Center for Support of Teaching and Learning at Syracuse University http://www.csub.edu/tlc/options/resources/handouts/
assessment/trends.html

University College Dublin provides a list of internationl trends in assessment.
http://www.ucd.ie/teaching/goodPracticeAssessment_sub/
Assessment%20Trends.html

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