LSN Project Database: Details

Do summative assessment and testing have a positive or negative effect on post-16 learners' motivation for learning in the Learning and Skills sector?

Project code

LSRC532

Start date

01 January 2003

Project leader

Maggie Greenwood,

End date

30 January 2004

Partnership

Data not available.

Project status

Completed

Project outputs

Research Bulletin "Do summative assessment and testing have a positive or negative effect on post-16 learners' motivation for learning in the Learning and Skills sector?" March 2003, Author: M.Greenwood, Weblink: https://crm.lsnlearning.org.uk/user/order.aspx?code=031849&src=XOWEB Publication title: "Do summative assessment and testing have a positive or negative effect on post-16 learners' motivation for learning in the Learning and Skills sector?" - Prof. H.Torrance & Dr. J. Coultas, April 2004. Weblink: https://crm.lsnlearning.org.uk/user/order.aspx?code=041610&src=XOWEB Teacher training resource bank - ttrb: 'Do summative assessment and testing have a positive or negative effect on post-16 learners’ motivation for learning in the learning and skills sector?' Link: http://www.ttrb.ac.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?anchorId=17790&selectedId=17996&ContentId=13085

Summary:

This is an LSRC research project. The review is part of a major research programme looking at the impact of assessment regimes on learners’ attainments in both accredited and non-accredited programmes. The research will be investigating what forms of assessment are best suited to promoting learners’ confidence to learn, both formally and informally. The first phase of this research programme will be to establish what is known about the impact of summative assessment.