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标题：Assessment Criteria: Exploring the missing perspectives of management development programme participants as learners in South Africa
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作者：MacDonald Kanyangale
期刊名称：African Journal of Business Management
印刷版ISSN：1993-8233
出版年度：2013
卷号：7
期号：2
页码：144-153
DOI：10.5897/AJBM12.1388
语种：English
出版社：Academic Journals
摘要：Integral to the success of any post-apartheid management development programme in South Africa is principled assessment of acquired competencies or learning achieved by the learners. This study explores how prospective Junior Managers employed in a multinational firm with operations in South Africa, actually used or did not use the assessment criteria when trying to demonstrate mastery of assessment tasks in two of the eight modules on a Junior Management Development Programme (JMDP). This programme was outsourced to a business school. Semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 14 successful employees on this JMDP were audio recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using an open coding and constant comparison technique. The results reflect that participants on the JMDP see the assessment criteria mainly as a tool for external use by an assessor, rather than as a pre-defined and precious basis to be internalized for use by them to judge the adequacy and quality of their own assignments prior to submission. While assessment criteria provide “cues” and “clues”, and also serve as a learning enabler, they fail to engender formative self-assessment by these participants. Assessment as learning in management development programmes inadvertently entrench threshold performance. Implications of the findings for learning and assessment in management development programmes are discussed.
关键词：Assessment criteria; Management Development; Management Education