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Catering for diversity in the digital age: Reconsidering equity in assessment practices
While the affordance of the digital age certainly enable more diver e students to access higher education, higher education assessment is often under-Âpinned by notion of equality rather than equity. Drawing together key literature and data from interviews with 53 first year undergraduate student from low socioÂeconomic status background, this chapter identifies three potential causes of assessment inequity which appear to persist into the digital age: student assessment
elf-efficacy, prior preparation. and external pressures. It then identifies how the affordance of modern technology can be used to help combat these challenges