Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. [Volume 39, Issue 8. April 1976]
Practical Problems of Assessment
Practical Problems of Assessment.
1. | Increase in total pressure on student to work harder and achieve more. |
2. | Increase and more continuous workload. |
3. | Growing emphasis on completion of assignments; rather than learning the matter. |
4. | Less time for extra-curricular activities. |
5. | Tutorials have become less of a learning situation. |
6. | In term assessment has encouraged cheating. |
7. | Use of tutors for marking assessment work has increased the inconsistency in the marks given to any one piece of work. |