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Assessment to Support Student Learning: Eight Challenges for 21st Century Practice (2019)
Journal Article
Sambell, K., Brown, S., & Race, P. (2019). Assessment to Support Student Learning: Eight Challenges for 21st Century Practice. All Ireland Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (AISHE-J), 11(2), -

There are many challenges for the colleagues who teach and assess students in the twenty-first century, and in this article, we explore eight of these, proposing some practical ways forward building on the scholarship in the field, aiming to make ass... Read More about Assessment to Support Student Learning: Eight Challenges for 21st Century Practice.

Assessment as a locus for engagement: priorities and practicalities (2019)
Journal Article
Sambell, K., Brown, S., & Race, P. (2019). Assessment as a locus for engagement: priorities and practicalities. Giornale Italiano della Recerca Educativa, https://doi.org/10.7346/SIRD-1S2019-P45

This paper considers how assessment can productively act as a locus for engagement. It focuses on the important case being made by diverse global assessment experts who argue that we would do well to rethink assessment such that learning, rather than... Read More about Assessment as a locus for engagement: priorities and practicalities.

Rethinking graduate attributes: understanding the learning journeys of part-time students in the Open University in Scotland. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Caddell, M., & Cannell, P. (2011, March). Rethinking graduate attributes: understanding the learning journeys of part-time students in the Open University in Scotland. Presented at Conference of the Universities Association for Lifelong Learning (UALL) 2011

Four in ten of Scotland’s university students study part time. But their voices and experience are often sidelined in debates about employability and graduate attributes. What do part-time students value in their course of study, and how does this di... Read More about Rethinking graduate attributes: understanding the learning journeys of part-time students in the Open University in Scotland..

Private schools and political conflict in Nepal. (2007)
Book Chapter
Caddell, M. (2007). Private schools and political conflict in Nepal. In P. Srivastava, & G. Walford (Eds.), Private Schooling in Less Economically Developed Countries: Asian and African Perspectives

Assessment for Learning: current practice exemplars from the Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (2005)
Book
McDowell, L., Sambell, K., Bazin, V., Penlington, R., Wakelin, D., Wickes, H., & Smailes, J. (2005). Assessment for Learning: current practice exemplars from the Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning. Northumbria University, MARCET

The concept of Centres of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs) arose from the Government White Paper “The future of Higher Education”, published in January 2003. Within this paper it was recognised that effective teaching and learning was esse... Read More about Assessment for Learning: current practice exemplars from the Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning.