Using an AI practice bank to support formative assessment in economics
byIn a large first-year economics unit, students kept asking for the same thing: more exam-style practice. Generative AI gave us a way to provide…
Offer meaningful assessment, feedback and academic integrity
When a real reference isn’t real evidence
byIn a recent assessment, I asked students to do something that sounded fairly simple: find references to support a set of assumptions used in…
How Padlet supports relational feedback
byMid-semester is a tricky time. Students are deep in the rhythm of the unit, assessments are looming, and any feedback we gather needs to…
Assessments for learning, equity, and agency in a first-year unit
byAssessment redesign is rarely driven by a single factor. In a first-year, first-semester Occupational Therapy unit at the University of Sydney, several pressures and…
What we learned from 400+ Interactive Oral Assessments in STEM
byBy 2024, we faced a familiar challenge around assessment integrity: quiz answers and podcast assignments came back polished and well-produced, but we needed to…
Teaching critical self-reflection with help from generative AI
byWe live in a world marked by environmental challenges, social inequities and political uncertainty. These issues are not peripheral to universities; they are central…
Delivering personalised feedback at scale using peer videos
byIn a cohort of large numbers of students, feedback can easily become impersonal. But what if the most powerful feedback didn’t come from us,…
Closing the feedback loop: What we learned when our assessment changes failed
byWhat do you do as an educator when a successful teaching innovation completely backfires with a different student cohort? In a previous Teaching@Sydney article,…
Feedback, fairness and flow: Group work management reimagined with SRES
byAs a new hire through the Sydney Education Horizon pathway, I was excited to be exposed to and amazed by the range of university-developed…
The partnership approach: Integrating AI and human feedback for enhanced learning
byFeedback has long been recognised as a cornerstone of effective learning, enabling students to identify strengths and areas for improvement in their academic work….