Towards fairer university assessment : recognizing the concerns of students / Nerilee R.A. Flint and Bruce Johnson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The importance of fair assessment -- Researching students' perceptions of fair assessment : a qualitative approach -- Sources of frustration with assessment -- Deciding the fairness of assessment -- Responding to unfair assessment -- Making assessment fairer.

After all the hours of studying, reading and preparation, the nights spent revising and the writing and re-writing of assignments, 'success' for university students can often be represented with a single grade or digit, summing up a wide range of activities. The authors of this timely book ask how fair that assessment is. This book is about a long-ignored determinant of student satisfaction, concerning the perception of how fairly students are judged, marked, ranked and rewarded for demonstrating their capabilities at university. In the high stakes competitive field of higher education, students are increasingly positioned as customers whose views on their university experience are considered vitally important. Yet paradoxically, little research has been undertaken to find out more about how students decide whether they have been treated fairly and what they do about it. Towards Fairer University Assessment will be of interest to higher education academics, administrators and managers, researchers in the areas of education policy and politics, as well as advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.