A contribution to the history of assessment: how a conversation simulator redeems Socratic method
@article{Nelson2014ACT, title={A contribution to the history of assessment: how a conversation simulator redeems Socratic method}, author={Robert Hugh Nelson and Phillip Dawson}, journal={Assessment \& Evaluation in Higher Education}, year={2014}, volume={39}, pages={195 - 204} }
Assessment in education is a recent phenomenon. Although there were counterparts in former epochs, the term assessment only began to be spoken about in education after the Second World War; and, since that time, views, strategies and concerns over assessment have proliferated according to an uncomfortable dynamic. We fear that, increasingly, education is assessment-led rather than learning-led and ‘counter to what is desired’ in an ugly judgemental spirit whose moral underpinnings deserve…
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