{"title":"Tutor-Marked Assignments at the Open University: A Question of Reliability.","authors":"C. Byrne","doi":"10.1080/0260293800050203","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Questions about examinations and continuous assessment are assured a great deal of controversy in any educational institution, especially if changes in established practices are proposed. Academic staff are sensitive about issues such as academic standards and their control, what students learn, how they learn learn, and teacher‐student relationships, all of which are implicated in discussions about assessment. These issues are no less important for the Open University (OU) than for other Universities. Indeed, the OU's dependence on a significant degree of central organization and control and the fact that the University has virtually committed itself to (non‐traditional) continuous assessment on a large scale would seem to make these issues of even greater significance than elsewhere. So when, in 1976, the University began a comprehensive review of its examinations and assessment policy, the scene was set for a grand debate, which took place. This paper is not about that debate, however, but abo...","PeriodicalId":109901,"journal":{"name":"Teaching at a Distance","volume":"195 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1980-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"41","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Teaching at a Distance","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0260293800050203","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT Questions about examinations and continuous assessment are assured a great deal of controversy in any educational institution, especially if changes in established practices are proposed. Academic staff are sensitive about issues such as academic standards and their control, what students learn, how they learn learn, and teacher‐student relationships, all of which are implicated in discussions about assessment. These issues are no less important for the Open University (OU) than for other Universities. Indeed, the OU's dependence on a significant degree of central organization and control and the fact that the University has virtually committed itself to (non‐traditional) continuous assessment on a large scale would seem to make these issues of even greater significance than elsewhere. So when, in 1976, the University began a comprehensive review of its examinations and assessment policy, the scene was set for a grand debate, which took place. This paper is not about that debate, however, but abo...