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Problematising standards: representation or performance?

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posted on 2018-01-01, 00:00 authored by Rola AjjawiRola Ajjawi, Margaret BearmanMargaret Bearman
In this chapter, we seek to problematise notions of standards within the assessment discourse, and particularly in relation to evaluative judgement. Standards in higher education are already the subject of some debate. We review the representational and sociocultural perspectives and then introduce an alternative, sociomaterial account. Our core argument is that a standard is neither a static representation of an absolute truth nor a subjective interpretation of a culturally generated artefact, but a dynamic and emergent ‘performance’. We then consider the implication of this view for assessment in general and evaluative judgement in particular.

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Title of book

Developing evaluative judgement in higher education: assessment for knowing and producing quality work

Chapter number

4

Pagination

41 - 50

Publisher

Routledge

Place of publication

Abingdon, Eng.

ISBN-13

9781351612524

Language

eng

Publication classification

B1 Book chapter

Copyright notice

2018, Rola Ajjawi, Margaret Bearman

Extent

19

Editor/Contributor(s)

D Boud, R Ajjawi, P Dawson, J Tai

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