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This book aims to contribute to the discourse of learning through assessment within a self-directed learning environment. It adds to the scholarship of assessment and self-directed learning within a face-to-face and online learning environment. As part of the NWU Self-Directed Learning Book Series, this book is devoted to scholarship in the field of self-directed learning, focusing on ongoing and envisaged assessment practices for self-directed learning through which learning within the 21st century can take place. This book acknowledges and emphasises the role of assessment as a pedagogical tool to foster self-directed learning during face-to-face and online learning situations. The way in which higher education conceptualises teaching, learning and assessment has been inevitably changed due to the COVID- 19 pandemic, and now more than ever we need learners to be self-directed in their learning. Assessment plays a key role in learning and, therefore, we have to identify innovative ways in which learning can be assessed, and which are likely to become the new norm even after the pandemic has been brought under control. The goal of this book, consisting of original research, is to assist with the paradigm shift regarding the purpose of assessment, as well as providing new ideas on assessment strategies, methods and tools appropriate to foster self-directed learning in all modes of delivery.

Self-managed learning. --- Learning strategies.

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Self-Directed Learning: An imperative for education in a complex society does a splendid jobof providing strong evidence for SDL as a way to prepare students with 21st-century skills,enabling them to be ready for the workforce where creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving are paramount to success in creating innovations that will change the landscape of all societies. This book is an important one, as it provides diverse perspectives on SDL in multiple contexts. From street vendors' arithmetic skills to problem-based learning in chemistry, the book sets up for a healthy dialogue to ensure the regard of SDL and how it can occur inmultiple ways, places, and contexts. The book offers multiple chapters examining SDL. The most powerful chapter showcases the street knowledge of vendors and their ability to execute mathematical functions compared to those within formal schooling. The qualitative methods used for this chapter afforded the reader a vivid portrait of how mathematics can bean integral part of a person's life when placed within the context of everyday life. The examples of the street knowledge provided throughout this chapter are powerful and full of wisdom, and align with the mathematics standards released years ago, proposing teachers afford students the chance for multiple ways of problem solving instead of using one formulaic method. This chapter, in particular, will empower the re-examining of teaching practices away from the abstract and into the actual way students 'think' about doing math.Researching student thinking is a powerful way to examine all subject matter and needs to be emphasised more in educational literature. This book will be an invaluable addition to the literature on self-directed learning and the research practices that best showcase how to analyse and interpret this complex phenomenon.

Self-managed learning. --- Learning strategies.

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This book aims to contribute to the discourse of learning through assessment within a self-directed learning environment. It adds to the scholarship of assessment and self-directed learning within a face-to-face and online learning environment. As part of the NWU Self-Directed Learning Book Series, this book is devoted to scholarship in the field of self-directed learning, focusing on ongoing and envisaged assessment practices for self-directed learning through which learning within the 21st century can take place. This book acknowledges and emphasises the role of assessment as a pedagogical tool to foster self-directed learning during face-to-face and online learning situations. The way in which higher education conceptualises teaching, learning and assessment has been inevitably changed due to the COVID- 19 pandemic, and now more than ever we need learners to be self-directed in their learning. Assessment plays a key role in learning and, therefore, we have to identify innovative ways in which learning can be assessed, and which are likely to become the new norm even after the pandemic has been brought under control. The goal of this book, consisting of original research, is to assist with the paradigm shift regarding the purpose of assessment, as well as providing new ideas on assessment strategies, methods and tools appropriate to foster self-directed learning in all modes of delivery.

Self-managed learning. --- Learning strategies.