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For What Purpose? Some Thoughts about Grading
Author(s) -
Alexander James C.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
new horizons in adult education and human resource development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1939-4225
DOI - 10.1002/nha3.10136
Subject(s) - grading (engineering) , vocational education , mastery learning , ranking (information retrieval) , psychology , higher education , mathematics education , pedagogy , computer science , engineering , political science , artificial intelligence , civil engineering , law
Grading in higher education has been based on a competitive/ranking model. As students become more vocation driven in their decision to attend college and as specific vocational domains become more performance centered, a new form of assessment is needed. This change has already taken place in departments of teacher education. A mastery learning, mastery orientation model is recommended as the model for assessment to be used in all areas of higher education.