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'Assessment drives learning' : do assessments promote high-level cognitive processing?

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: Students tend to learn in the way they know, or think, they will be assessed. Therefore, to ensure deep, meaningful learning, assessments must be geared to promote cognitive processing that requires complex, contextualised thinking to construct meaning and create knowledge. Bloom's taxonomy of cognitive levels is used worldwide to assist in preparing assessment materials. The taxonomy entails the classification of cognitive actions into six, increasingly complex, levels.

Source: South African Journal of Higher Education

Authors: MJ Bezuidenhout, Rainer Alt

Institution: University of the Free State

Language: English

Topic: Educational Assessment and Pedagogy

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $20

OpenAlex ID: W1553039284

FWCI: 4.27

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