Year: 2020
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Assessment and feedback are matters of perennial angst in higher education.There are concerns about student satisfaction, fairness in assessment, grade inflation, assessment types, assessment 'burdens' and equivalences between institutions.This paper examines assessment through the lens of Rittel and Webber's (1973) concept of 'wicked problems'.Understanding assessment as a 'wicked' social problem rather than a solvable technical problem offers a lens through which to address the complexity of assessment in higher education.
Authors: John Canning, Juliet Eve
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3009455023