European standards for quality assurance and institutional practices of student assessment in the UK, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00237752:_____/14:#0000211

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2013.830694" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2013.830694</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2013.830694" target="_blank" >10.1080/02602938.2013.830694</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

European standards for quality assurance and institutional practices of student assessment in the UK, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic

Original language description

This article analyses the student assessment procedures of 12 universities in the UK, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic with respect to their alignment with the European standards and guidelines on the quality of assessing higher education students(European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance [ESG] 1.3). Based on qualitative methodology combining document review with semi-structured interviews, the analysis has yielded three major results. First, the assessment procedures of the UK universities studied indicate the highest alignment with the ESG 1.3 when compared to the Czech institutions, with the Dutch universities occupying the middle ground. Second, a preference for summative assessment to account for pressures of massification canbe observed at institutions in all three countries. Third, it is argued that contrary to some (ministerial) expectations, the influence of the ESG on institutions seems to be insignificant, due to unawareness of the ESG 1.3 at all of the

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AM - Pedagogy and education

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education

ISSN

0260-2938

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

39

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

310-325

UT code for WoS article

000331356300004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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