Language of evaluation: How PLA evaluators write about student learning

Nan Travers; Bernard Smith; Leslie Ellis; Tom Brady; Liza Feldman; Kameylah Hakim; Bhuwan Onta; Maria Panayotou; Laurie Seamans; Amanda Treadwell

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning Vol. 12, No. 1 (Dec 17, 2010) pp. 80–95

Very few studies (e.g., Arnold, 1998; Joosten-ten Brinke, et al., 2009) have examined the ways in which evaluators assess students’ prior learning. This investigation explored the ways that evaluators described students’ prior learning in final...