A Blueprint for Skills Assessment in Higher Education

Abstract

The following paper has as its basis a series of workshop presentations already made to colleagues at over 20 universities. At these, its core findings have been outlined, discussed and refined. Drawing on original work by a Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning Project studying assessment for students of languages, it proposes a blueprint for the separate and explicit assessment of transferable skills. It is suggested that this approach to transferable skills assessment is valid for subjects other than languages and could be adopted more widely across the higher education curriculum.