Ipsative Assessment Motivation through Marking Progress [Paperback]

Ipsative assessment is a powerful new approach that provokes a radical rethink of the purposes and methods of assessment. This book presents a case for partially replacing competitive assessment with ipsative assessment, and it explores the possibilities and the challenges with research evidence and case studies.1. A Fresh Look at Assessment 2. The Purposes of Assessment: Competition and Social Selection 3. Assessment for Learning: In the Shadows? 4. The Effects of Competition on Assessment for Learning 5. Exploring Ipsative Assessment 6. Making the Case for Ipsative Assessment: Assessment for Learning Revisited 7. Two Case Studies of Ipsative Assessment in Academic Setting 8. A Dual Systems Model of Assessment: Lessons from Doctoral Supervision 9. Leading Innovation and Change in Educational Settings: The Challenges of Assessment Reform 10. Institutional Case Study of Innovation in Assessment 11. Ipsative Assessment as a Feasible Utopia

Ipsative Assessment provides an insightful lookinto the philosophies, principles, processes, and realities of assessment ineducation and beyond. Hughess argument in favour of empowering learners andteachers provides a thought-provoking take on the potential and the limitationsof assessment that is certain to make this book a favourite with teachers,learners, and educational assessment stakeholders alike. (Paraskevi Mylona, LondonReview of Education, Vol. 13 (3), December, 2015)

The take-home message from Ipsative Assessment: Motivation through Marking Progress is that ipsative assessment is not new, but formal institutional systems adopting this perspective are scarce. Therefore, in order to successfully support students' learning, institutions need to adopt a dual system approach that combines traditional purposes of assessments (e.g., competition) with processes that support scaffolded learning (i.e., ipsative assessment). - British Journal of Educational Studies

Gwyneth Hughes is Reader in lC,