| Abstract: | This paper reports a surrey of public sector law lecturers' methods of assessment of their undergraduate students, and their attitudes towards these processes. The survey was conducted by postal questionnaire to all public sector law teachers. The findings indicate that: -
Law lecturers are unclear about course objectives. Moreover, where course objectives are specified they tend not to be explicitly related to criteria for student assessment. -
Methods used for assessment often do not match specified course objectives. -
Law lecturers tend to be ‘conservative’ markers who use a narrow range of marks clustered round relatively low average points. |
