Let's talk about External Examining in Higher Education
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The external examiner system has a long history beginning in the 1830s and is seen as an essential part of quality standards processes in UK Higher Education
Fundamentals of External Examining @AdvanceHE (2019)
https://documents.advance-he.ac.uk/download/file/8651
External examining - Report on external examinersā€™ understanding and use of academic standards @AdvanceHE (2014)
https://documents.advance-he.ac.uk/download/file/8652
The Degree Standards Project @AdvanceHE - Design, pilot and deliver different approaches to the professional development of external examiners.
https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/degree-standards-project#Doing
Examining the Examiner: Investigating the assessment literacy of external examiners @SRHE73 Emma Medland
https://www.srhe.ac.uk/downloads/reports-2015/SRHE_Newer_Research_Award_Final_Report-E_Medland.pdf
On being an external examiner
Andrew Hannan and Harold Silver
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03075070500392300
External examining: fit for purpose?
Sue Bloxham and Margaret Price
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03075079.2013.823931
Examining the assessment literacy of external examiners
Emma Medland https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/ioep/clre/2015/00000013/00000003/art00004
ā€˜Iā€™m an assessment illiterateā€™: towards a shared discourse of assessment literacy for external examiners - Emma Medland https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02602938.2018.1523363
Accountability in grading student work: securing academic standards in a twenty-first century quality
assurance context Sue Bloxham and Pete Boyd
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/23263907.pdf
What is Calabration? @AdvanceHE
"Calibration is based on the assumption that standards are socially constructed, and it therefore involves dialogue, negotiation and joint decision making." https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/project-section/what-is-calibration
Social moderation, assessment and assuring standards for accounting graduates https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02602938.2013.848336
Calibration Activities #assessment #quality #standards
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