Enhancing student performance and employability through the use of authentic assessment techniques in extra and co-curricular activities (ECCAs) |
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Authors: | Dan Berger Charles Wild |
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Affiliation: | School of Law, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9EU, UK |
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Abstract: | The paper advocates the use of authentic assessment techniques, delivered in extra and co-curricular activities (ECCAs), to augment and improve student performance on academic law degree programmes. A combination of formative and summative methods in ECCA assessment provides the optimum environment to measure and improve the crucial critical reasoning skill – the key transferable skill to academic degree success. This skill, when developed in students, is also highly prized by prospective employers, and therefore, the use of authentic assessment improves graduate employability rates. |
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Keywords: | Authentic assessment student performance student employability legal education summative and formative assessment |
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