Issues in Assessment,Enterprise and Higher Education: the case for self‐peer and collaborative assessment

The debate surrounding assessment in education and the tensions it has caused is based upon conflicting ideologies in society. Enterprise in Higher Education and other initiatives have raised the awareness of staff to these issues and caused many of us to rethink the way in which we educate students. Changing the structure of assessment has enabled us to start adopting methods which are more student centred and appropriate to the demands of employers in particular and society as a whole more generally. There is a strong case for adopting a, more collaborative approach which breaks away from traditional norms and, while assessing students’ abilities in a summative sense, helps them to develop an awareness of their strengths and weaknesses in a formative way.