Evaluating the Quality of Learning: The Solo Taxonomy : Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome

by John Biggs

This book outlines clearly and in nonspecialist language the SOLO Taxonomy, a model of the objective and systematic assessment of the quality of learning (from back cover

Genres: Education

262 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1982

About the author

John Biggs spent his professional life as an academic psychologist and educator in England, Canada, Australia and Hong Kong. He has published extensively as an academic, his most important work being Teaching for Quality Learning at University (Open University Press, 1998; 4ed with Catherine Tang as co-author). He retired from Hong Kong University to concentrate on writing. He has published five novels: The Girl in the Golden House (Pandanus Books 2003), Project Integrens (Sid Harta 2006), Disguises (Burville Books 2007, republished as an-book),Tin Dragons (Maygog, 2008) and From Ashes to Ashes (Interactive Publications, 2013) and a collection of short stories, Towards Forgiveness: Sino-Tasmanian stories from two islands, Ginninderra, 2012. Non-fiction includes Tasmania over Five Generations (Forty Degrees South, 2010), a social-political history of Tasmania as seen through the eyes of the Biggs family, and Changing Universities (Strictly Literary, 2013) an academic memoir, recounting some of the more bizarre, traumatic and rewarding aspects of university life in several countries. Further details at www.johnbiggs.com.au