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Fitness for purpose in the assessment of learning: students as stakeholders (1999)
Journal Article
Mcdowell, L., & Sambell, K. (1999). Fitness for purpose in the assessment of learning: students as stakeholders. Quality in Higher Education, 5(2), 107-123. https://doi.org/10.1080/1353832990050202

A fitness‐for‐purpose approach to determining the quality of assessment practices in higher education requires the consideration of the perspectives of a range of stakeholders including students. Empirical data from case studies of assessment in prac... Read More about Fitness for purpose in the assessment of learning: students as stakeholders.

The Construction of the Hidden Curriculum: messages and meanings in the assessment of student learning (1998)
Journal Article
Sambell, K., & McDowell, L. (1998). The Construction of the Hidden Curriculum: messages and meanings in the assessment of student learning. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 23(4), 391-402. https://doi.org/10.1080/0260293980230406

A wide range of diverse responses by individual students to innovative or alternative assessment are described and discussed, drawing on research data. Student perspectives are significant since assessment is a powerful factor in determining the hidd... Read More about The Construction of the Hidden Curriculum: messages and meanings in the assessment of student learning.

Characterization of the Escherichia coli damage-independent UvrBC endonuclease activity (1998)
Journal Article
Bazuine, M., van Knippenberg, I., Visse, R., & Goosen, N. (1998). Characterization of the Escherichia coli damage-independent UvrBC endonuclease activity. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 273(52), 34896-34903. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.273.52.34896

Incision of damaged DNA templates by UvrBC inEscherichia coli depends on UvrA, which loads UvrB on the site of the damage. A 50-base pair 3′ prenicked DNA substrate containing a cholesterol lesion is incised by UvrABC at two positions 5′ to the lesio... Read More about Characterization of the Escherichia coli damage-independent UvrBC endonuclease activity.

“But is it fair?”: An exploratory study of student perceptions of the consequential validity of assessment (1997)
Journal Article
Sambell, K., McDowell, L., & Brown, S. (1997). “But is it fair?”: An exploratory study of student perceptions of the consequential validity of assessment. Studies in Educational Evaluation, 23(4), 349-371. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0191-491x%2897%2986215-3

n the "Impact of Assessment" project, we have been studying the effects of alternative ways of assessing student learning through a number of case studies of assessment in practice. Amongst the criteria used to evaluate methods of assessing student l... Read More about “But is it fair?”: An exploratory study of student perceptions of the consequential validity of assessment.