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Being involved in student assessment is perhaps the most critical of all tasks facing the teacher. Generally, teachers take such involvement quite seriously but, sadly, the quality of many assessment and examination procedures leave much to be desired. The aim of this chapter, therefore, will be to help you to ensure that the assessments with which you are involved will measure what they are supposed to measure in as fair and as accurate a way as possible. We will provide some background information about the purposes of assessment and the basic principles of educational measurement. We will then detail the forms of assessment with which you should be familiar in order that you can rationally select the best method to use.
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© 1987 David Newble and Robert Cannon
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Newble, D., Cannon, R. (1987). Assessing the Students. In: A Handbook for Medical Teachers. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0578-3_6
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