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Getting the most out of fieldwork: enhancing assessment as a tool for students and teachers

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Round 1 Teaching Development Grant

A central strength of archaeology as an education is the outstanding range of transferable skills, intellectual, interpersonal, theoretical and practical that it fosters. A central element of best exploiting this strength is a process of assessment that assists in student progress by effectively monitoring performance. To date, more attention has been given to methods of assessment of texts (exams, essay work, dissertations etc.) than to fieldwork.

The aim of this project is to gather information from archaeology and relevant cognate subjects, e.g. Earth Sciences on approaches to assessment, and to derive from them, and from the community’s response to them, models of best practice and frameworks for future development.

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