| Abstract: | Our objective in this paper is to investigate, and comment upon, the assessment methods in use to monitor student progress and success in Economics Degree programmes. Our reasons for undertaking this study were twofold: (a) while the content and teaching methods of economics courses have been the subject of debate and change, the corresponding methods of assessment have received little consideration, and (b) colleagues from other academic disciplines at our own institution, the Coventry Polytechnic, and elsewhere, comment adversely upon the terminal achievement record of economics students. |
