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D. The student is an active agent throughout

• Assessment tasks have traditionally positioned students as passive. That is, students respond to a task that has been set for them in conditions tightly controlled by others. While there is a need for integrity to be ensured, there is scope for students to influence the direction of assessment through choosing examples and illustrations they will pursue, through various forms of self assessment and through helping set the nature of the task itself.

• Assessment can be co-constructed through a set brief which has scope for different approaches within it.

• eg. a learning contract with some of the features pre-specified, but with others open, or activities for which students have to choose the particular ways they demonstrate learning outcomes.