Assessment in higher education : the anatomy of a wicked problem

Canning, John and Eve, Juliet (2020) Assessment in higher education : the anatomy of a wicked problem. In: Masika, Rachel, (ed.) Research matters : the pedagogic research conference and articles 2019. Brighton, U.K. : University of Brighton. pp. 51-60. ISBN 9781910172223

Official URL: https://doi.org/10.17033/UOB.9781910172223

Abstract

Assessment and feedback are matters of perennial angst in higher education. There are concerns about student satisfaction, fairness in assessment, grade inflation, assessment types, assessment ‘burdens’ and equivalences between institutions. This paper examines assessment through the lens of Rittel and Webber’s (1973) concept of ‘wicked problems’. Understanding assessment as a ‘wicked’ social problem rather than a solvable technical problem offers a lens through which to address the complexity of assessment in higher education.

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