Continuous assessment in higher education in Denmark
Designing fair and efficient ways of assessing student learning is a challenge to most teachers in higher education. It is possible that multiple graded, low-stake activities during the teaching period can either replace or supplement end-of-semester exams to measure student performance. Such a shif...
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| author | Ole Eggers Bjælde Tove Hedegaard Jørgensen Annika Büchert Lindberg |
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| description | Designing fair and efficient ways of assessing student learning is a challenge to most teachers in higher education. It is possible that multiple graded, low-stake activities during the teaching period can either replace or supplement end-of-semester exams to measure student performance. Such a shift to continuous assessment has the potential not only to increase efficiency but, importantly, also enhance student learning. Continuous assessment is used widely internationally and now (since 2016) also allowed at Danish Universities. Here we review the advantages and disadvantages of this assessment format and report on its first use in two science courses at Aarhus University. We include a detailed description of the graded tasks and activities used in the two courses. By comparing student per-formance in continuous assessments with that of a traditional end-of-semester exam we are able to highlight some challenges and provide recommendations for the future use of this assessment format at Danish universities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6d8f8009c3314d53a1e9a5bfeb3bdebd2022-12-21T19:32:37ZdanDansk Universitetspædagogisk NetværkDansk Universitetspaedagogisk Tidsskrift1901-50892245-13742017-10-01122311925634Continuous assessment in higher education in DenmarkOle Eggers Bjælde0Tove Hedegaard Jørgensen1Annika Büchert Lindberg2Aarhus Universitet, Faculty of Science and TechnologyAarhus Universitet, Faculty of Science and TechnologyAarhus Universitet, Faculty of Science and TechnologyDesigning fair and efficient ways of assessing student learning is a challenge to most teachers in higher education. It is possible that multiple graded, low-stake activities during the teaching period can either replace or supplement end-of-semester exams to measure student performance. Such a shift to continuous assessment has the potential not only to increase efficiency but, importantly, also enhance student learning. Continuous assessment is used widely internationally and now (since 2016) also allowed at Danish Universities. Here we review the advantages and disadvantages of this assessment format and report on its first use in two science courses at Aarhus University. We include a detailed description of the graded tasks and activities used in the two courses. By comparing student per-formance in continuous assessments with that of a traditional end-of-semester exam we are able to highlight some challenges and provide recommendations for the future use of this assessment format at Danish universities.https://tidsskrift.dk/dut/article/view/25634AssessmentContinuous assessment |
| spellingShingle | Ole Eggers Bjælde Tove Hedegaard Jørgensen Annika Büchert Lindberg Continuous assessment in higher education in Denmark Dansk Universitetspaedagogisk Tidsskrift Assessment Continuous assessment |
| title | Continuous assessment in higher education in Denmark |
| title_full | Continuous assessment in higher education in Denmark |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Continuous assessment in higher education in Denmark |
| title_short | Continuous assessment in higher education in Denmark |
| title_sort | continuous assessment in higher education in denmark |
| topic | Assessment Continuous assessment |
| url | https://tidsskrift.dk/dut/article/view/25634 |
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