CRADLE 2018 publications round-up – Part 3: Evaluative judgement / Contract cheating
11 December 2018
As 2018 draws to a close, we asked the CRADLE team to look over their impressive list of publications for the year and pick some highlights for a special four-part publications round-up. Today – if you’re looking for new perspectives or some inspiration around evaluative judgement or contract cheating, read on! Hungry for more food for thought? Don’t miss out on our full 2018 publications round-up!
Part 1: Assessment
Part 2: Research practice / Health professions education
Part 4: Feedback
Evaluative judgement
Developing Evaluative Judgement in Higher Education: Assessment for Knowing and Producing Quality Work
D. Boud, R. Ajjawi, P. Dawson and J. Tai (eds.) (2018) Routledge: Abingdon (UK)
The first CRADLE book! It was published in April this year, and officially launched at the EARLI SIG1 Assessment and Evaluation conference at Helsinki in August. This edited collection demystifies the concept of evaluative judgement and explores alternate theoretical perspectives, approaches to developing evaluative judgement, and evaluative judgement for practice and work.
It pins down in practical terms how familiar practices such as feedback, rubrics, peer assessment and working with exemplars can be effectively employed to help graduates succeed once the scaffolding of criteria, marks and tutors have been left behind at university. By adopting a refreshingly new perspective on assessment purposes as well as encompassing small and large scale approaches, this book is at the cutting edge of assessment theory and practice. – Sue Bloxham, Emeritus professor of Academic Practice, University of Cumbria
Prefigurement, identities and agency: The disciplinary nature of evaluative judgement
M. Bearman, in D. Boud, R. Ajjawi, P. Dawson and J. Tai (eds.) (2018) Developing Evaluative Judgement in Higher Education: Assessment for Knowing and Producing Quality Work, Routledge: Abingdon (UK), pp. 147-155
This chapter in Developing Evaluative Judgement in Higher Education unpacks why evaluative judgement is never a generic skill.
Developing evaluative judgement: Enabling students to make decisions about the quality of work 
J. Tai, R. Ajjawi, D. Boud, P. Dawson and E. Panadero* (2018) Higher Education 76(3), pp. 467-481
It’s not quite a year since this paper came out, but the response has been excellent – over 230 shares, 6000 downloads, and 16 GS citations. More importantly, it gives a vocabulary to those wanting to talk about developing learners’ future independent practice. The ideas resonated at ASCILITE when considering how to prepare learners for a future where, increasingly, the jobs available for humans will be tasks that computers can’t do well – such as making judgements in new situations, and creativity.
Contract cheating
Can training improve marker accuracy at detecting contract cheating? A multi-disciplinary pre-post study
P. Dawson and W. Sutherland-Smith† (2018) Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education
Essay mills will tell you that there’s no way a marker can detect contract cheating. In this study, we tested that claim in four disciplines and found that markers could spot contract cheating assignments 58% of the time. We then tried training markers to spot contract cheating and found their detection rates increased to 82%. If you want to run this workshop with your markers, there are instructions in Appendix A.
*CRADLE Honorary Professor
†CRADLE Fellow
