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Notes:
Assessment is haunted by the spectre of measurement and its equally
nefarious companion accountability. At the same time the health professions
with society in general faces not so much a future but a present experience
of unprecedented speed of change, of uncertainty, indeed, of opportunity
as well as problems. There are increasing moves to get Higher Education
and practice into a closer relationship, whether in links with business
or with the various professions of the private and public sectors.
The focus is moving towards the place of work and the application of knowledge
as well as the production of knowledge based upon experience of the workplace.
However, to aim at making assessment work in practice, we need to ask ourselves
very clearly: what is the nature of that 'work' that we want it to perform?
Work always connotes the transformation of some state of affairs into another,
hopefully intended or desirable state.
I want to explore what I mean by assessment working in practice with
reference to some ideas from the interim report of the PANDA project.
