Evaluating Our Evaluation: Rethinking Student Assessment in Negotiation Courses
N. Ebner, J. Coben & C. Honeyman (Eds.), Assessing our Students, Assessing Ourselves: Vol.3 in the Rethinking Negotiation Teaching Series. St Paul, MN: DRI Press
24 Pages Posted: 17 Jul 2013
Date Written: 2012
Abstract
Surveying the history of the first thirty years of assessment of negotiation students, the authors find a great deal of creativity, but also a great deal of illogic. To set the stage for the detailed chapters which follow, the authors analyze the multiple purposes behind assessment, and outline a range of possibilities. They also identify seven criteria which any responsible evaluation system should try to satisfy, and discuss a key distinction: the different purposes of formative and summative assessment. It is essential, they contend, that modern systems of assessment address both.
Keywords: negotiation, teaching, pedagogy, evaluation, assessment, formative, summative, rethinking
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