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Self-assessment at work: Outcomes of adult learners' reflections on practice

Authorship Details
Catherine Marienau
Publication Details
Resource Type: 
Article
Publication Date: 
Spring 1999
Publication Title: 
Adult Education Quarterly
Volume: 
49
Issue or Number: 
3
Pagination: 
135-147
Summary

Examines the outcomes of engaging in self-rating and assessment as perceived by students of an adult learning program. Emergence of fifteen themes representing specific outcomes of self-assessment from an inductive analysis of data; Indications that self-assessment serves as a powerful instrument for experiential learning.

Self-assessment in university assessment of prior learning procedures

Authorship Details
Brinke, D. Joosten-Ten
Sluijsmans, D. M. A
Jochems, W. M. G
Publication Details
Resource Type: 
Article
Publication Date: 
Jan 2009
Publication Title: 
International Journal of Lifelong Education
Publisher: 
Routledge
Volume: 
28
Issue or Number: 
1
Pagination: 
107-122
Summary

Competency-based university education, in which lifelong learning and flexible learning are key elements, demands a renewed vision on assessment. Within this vision, Assessment of Prior Learning (APL), in which learners have to show their prior learning in order for their goals to be recognised, becomes an important element. This article focuses on a first step in APL, namely students' self-assessment of their prior learning before entering university education. The main aim of the presented study is to examine the suitability of the use of self-assessment in APL. First, in an explorative study, the main sources for self-assessment are derived and the relation between sources and domain of study is investigated. Second, in a pre-test post-test research design, the hypothesis that students' self-assessment of prior learning related to a course changes after studying a domain-specific course is tested. Pre-test results reveal that students indicate that they have prior knowledge related to the chosen university programme. In general, this prior learning is obtained from study experience, work experience, books, newspapers, magazines, the Internet, TV, radio, film or video. A relation is found between the type of source and the university programme. The hypothesis that students change their self-assessment after a study period could not be confirmed. Based on these results, it is concluded that self-assessment in APL might be a suitable tool. Implications for further research are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR].


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