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Assessing the Undergraduate Dissertation.
- Source :
- Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education; Mar2000, Vol. 25 Issue 1, p71-80, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2000
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Abstract
- This paper reports on a study of assessment of undergraduate dissertations in the seven departments which constitute the School of Social Sciences and Law at Oxford Brookes University. Information was gathered from documented material and interviews regarding criteria used in assessment of dissertations. This was analysed to identify the range of criteria across disciplines. Criteria were also examined by administration of a questionnaire asking staff to define commonly listed criteria. Finally, a content analysis of completed assessment forms was undertaken to gauge the extent to which identified criteria were actually applied and to gain insight into those that were implicit. The study revealed considerable ambiguity as regards use, meaning and application of criteria. The paper concludes by outlining the policies and practices that are now being developed in the School in the light of these findings, and situates the study in the UK national context of concern to establish graduate threshold standards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ACADEMIC dissertations
OXFORD Brookes University. School of Social Sciences & Law
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02602938
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 3701190
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02602930050025042