1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910652406903321

Titolo

Improving assessment in higher education : a whole of institution approach / / edited by Richard Henry, Stephen Marshall, Prem Ramburuth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sydney : , : UNSW Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-74224-662-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HenryRichard

MarshallStephen

RamburuthPrem

Disciplina

378.1;378.1/07;378.107

Soggetti

Education, Higher

Postsecondary education

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of contributors; Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; PART I; 1.International and national contexts in higher education; 2.The institutional context for change; 3.The UNSW approach to improving assessment; PART II; 4.The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: A whole-of-faculty assessment tool; 5.The Australian School of Business: Re-thinking assessment strategies; 6.The Faculty of the Built Environment: Improving approaches to assessment through curriculum renewal; 7.The COFA Experience: Assessment reform and review; 8.The Faculty of Engineering Beyond professional accreditation

9.The Law School and the Assessment Project10.The Faculty of Medicine: Diversity, validity and efficiency of assessment; 11.The Faculty of Science: The challenge of diverse disciplines; 12. UNSW Canberra: A university within a university; PART III; 13.Faculty Responses to the Assessment Project; 14.Institutional outcomes of the Assessment Project; 15.Lessons Learnt about Whole-Of-Institution Educational Change; Index

Sommario/riassunto

All teaching institutions recognise the need to make continual improvements in the quality of teaching and learning. But how, in the



resource-constrained environments of universities, can quality be improved without increasing resources to fund it? The governing body at the University of New South Wales gave its president and vice-chancellor three years to find a way to do just that in the area of student assessment. Improving Assessment in Higher Education offers a wealth of detail on this innovative project which aimed to improve the efficiency of student assessment while maintaining and imp

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910705167903321

Autore

Collins Geoffrey C.

Titolo

Global geologic map of Ganymede / / by Geoffrey C. Collins ... [and six others] ; edited by J.L. Zigler ; cartography by Kathryn Nimz. ; prepared for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Reston, Va.] : , : U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 2013

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (3 maps) : color + + 1 pamphlet (i, 4 pages)

Collana

Scientific investigations map ; ; 3237

Soggetti

Geological maps.

Remote-sensing maps.

Maps.

Ganymede (Satellite) Geology Maps

Ganymede (Satellite) Maps

Ganymede (Satellite) Geology Remote-sensing images

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale cartografico a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Prepared on behalf of the Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, Solar System Exploration Division, Office of Space Science, National Aeronautics and Space Administration."

Relief shown by shading and hachures.

Coordinates shown as W 180° -- E 180°/N 57° -- S -57°; W 0°--E 0°/N 90°--N 55° (North polar region); W 0°--E 0°/S 55°--S 90° (South polar region).

Includes text, 2 ancillary maps, 1 graph, 30 remote-sensing images (some colored), and 1 lithologic column.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 3-4 of pamphlet).