Critical Assessment Is Missing

Assessment analytics: The missing step

Assessment is a central element of the learning process; it defines what students consider important and measures their personal achievements across all phases of professional development. It gives institutions a valuable feedback about the success of realizing program goals and institution objectives.1 E-assessments are special types of assessments that use technology for management or deliver...

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A Critical Assessment of IS Security Research between 1990-2004

This paper reviews the IS security literature for the period 1990-2004. More specifically three security journals and the top twenty IS journals were examined. In total 1280 IS security papers were analysed in terms of theories, research methods and research topics. Our research found that 1043 of the papers contained no theory. In addition, almost 1000 of the papers were categorized as ‘subjec...

Summative assessment: the missing link for formative assessment

Assessment for learning is increasingly part of accepted orthodoxy, with massive government funding in England, is central to national assessment in Wales, and an export to the USA. Black et al.’s Assessment for learning: Putting it into practice (2003), the ‘bible’ of assessment for learning, is set reading for trainee teachers across the UK, and this text is increasingly a staple diet for all...