ABSTRACT
In this chapter we provide a comparative review of different strategies used in summative and formative assessment in BEE. We are not aiming to duplicate the valuable advice provided in publications such as the Business Review and the Economics Review. Our focus here is on the rationale and evidence for using different styles of assessment. We focus on three assessment techniques: data collection and analysis through coursework, data response questions (including case studies) and multiplechoice questions. In each of the next three sections we refer to examples of practice with each of these techniques and examine how these techniques are designed to produce the information required by assessment objectives. In the second half of the chapter we turn our attention away from summative assessment on to formative assessment. We summarise the principles of assessment for learning, provide some examples of practice in BEE and examine how emerging work on the psychology of learning could provide a stronger base for assessment for learning in the future.
