Making Sense of Feedback in Public Health Assessments
The importance of feedback in higher education is already well established. This is even more so the case given the move towards more student-centred…
The use of technology for assessment in public health
Technology has dramatically changed the way we teach in universities. We increasingly see laptops, mobile phones, or tablets in classrooms, and bigger changes are…
Standards-based assessments for public health education: Use of rubrics and exemplars
The current University of Sydney Assessment Procedures has highlighted the need and requirements to apply standards-based assessments to our teaching. It explains what standards-based…
Designing assessment tasks for public health teaching – Constructive alignment with learning outcomes and graduate qualities
Designing assessment tasks is probably the greatest challenge in curriculum development. Based on Professor David Boud’s criteria proposed in the 1990s, which are still…
Exploring assessment for public health in higher education
Public health, as defined by the Encyclopedia of Public Health, is ‘the field of medicine and hygiene dealing with the prevention of disease and…