Assessment strategy is the process and policy used by the university to evaluate the skills and knowledge of the student. The purpose for assessment is to measure the performance of student in different skills, encourage further learning amongst students and award qualification or credits. The method or strategies used in assessing students.
Group work; in every unit we are enrolled, we have been divided into groups; haven come from different cultural background and have different communication style most of us find it very difficult understanding what some of our group members are saying. Lecturers want us to solve a given problem by analysing and evaluating our findings. This is a great challenge because we had different educational backgrounds, entirely different from what is been practice in the UK.
Report writing: report writing is one of the strategies in which assessment is been carried out for student. The format being used in the UK is different from the format used back in my country. We were given guidelines to write reports from the day of our induction and strict emphasis on plagiarism which was particularly shocking to me. I have never thought of it that it is a crime for me to write out the words of others without crediting source of materials till the day of my induction. The first word that came out of my mouth was “then why did they write the books”. There after the tutor said “proper referencing must be done in any of your work using the Harvard referencing method” it all sounded strange to me because in my country there is no special style for referencing. The other issue is the turn-it in we have to do after each assignment, group work or report we have written. Most students who do not have computer skills found it difficult turning their assignments in. Students from different country had different ways of submitting their assignment either by giving it to the lecturer in class or to the class representative for submission.
Presentation and class room practice; this is another form of assessment in which the school uses to test our communication skills and to shape international students English. The use of grammar when students come in newly in class most students were afraid of contributing in class due to their poor English construction. In other countries there are no classroom practice or presentations the teacher just want you to listen at the end of the day you take home the little you understand. In the UK classroom practice and presentation is one of the assessment a student must go through. This form of assessment gives lecturers and the authorities in charge of the programme to know if the students understand what they are been taught in class and how much they have learned from their research work.
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Nightingale P, I.T., Tooley, S., Ryan, G., Hughes C., Magin, D. (1996) Assessing learning in the university professional development.