ABSTRACT
This chapter examines workplace assessment practices and considers a wide range of alternative methods and approaches for integrating learning and working. The typical workplace training programme is a response to senior level initiatives to: increase human capital; boost quality, efficiency or marketing success; improve technical skills; and contribute to professional or managerial development. Employers, less and less willing to allow employees to go off on training courses away from the workplace for days at a time, are turning to online learning as a more flexible, cheaper and more appropriate medium for just-in-time learning. Examples of best practice in 'assessing for learning' can be categorized into three broad areas: self-evaluation; peer evaluation; and instructor evaluation. Assessment methods can be seen on a continuum from the highly individual, such as learning contracts, to the highly standardized, such as objective tests and exams that test content knowledge.
