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'Failure dances to the tune of insecurity': affective issues in the assessment and evaluation of access learning

This paper reports on the curriculum design of an Access program in Dumfries and Galloway which has taken 23 per ce ... Show more
This paper reports on the curriculum design of an Access program in Dumfries and Galloway which has taken 23 per cent of its intake of disadvantaged adults successfully into FE [further education] and/or HE [higher education], and many others into employment. The nature of the assessment, summative and formative, which was incorporated in the integrated curriculum design, was critical to creating confidence, a positive attitude to education, and thence to successful engagement with cognitive demands. Data from the program demonstrates the importance of addressing such students' affective agendas, and how facilitated self-assessment in particular is a vehicle for 'mainstreaming' students from the isolation of disadvantage into successful educational progress.
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Authors: George, Judith; Cowan, John; Hewitt, Lindsay; Cannell, Pete

Date: 2004

Geographic subjects: Europe; Great Britain

Resource type: Article

Journal title: Journal of access policy and practice

Subjects: Assessment; Employment; Disadvantaged ... [+] Show more