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…
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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…
Contract Cheating and Assessment Design
The MyMaster scandal involving several prominent NSW universities in 2015 highlighted the proliferation of contract cheating (or ghostwriting) of student assignments as a significant problem facing all…
How to make your assessments ‘renewable’
At the recent Sydney Teaching Colloquium, three of our outstanding teachers shared how to design and implement assessments with student-generated resources that can be…
Designing and reflecting on assessment
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) recently held their assessment forum, an afternoon of presentations by teaching staff that gave insights into…
Ten myths about generative AI in education that are holding us back
Over the last ten months, I’ve had the privilege of speaking with hundreds of educators here and overseas about generative AI. The emotional and…
ChatGPT is old news: How do we assess in the age of AI writing co-pilots?
In the seven months since ChatGPT was released, the world of generative AI has progressed at an almost impossible pace. Trying to keep up…
AI generated stories for prediction activities: Get students engaged before you even start! [1A3]
The strategy of “Prediction” in education is a fairly well-known technique in which students are asked to make informed predictions to a certain question/questions…
Taking History Beyond the Classroom [1A1]
In this session, current History student Darcy Campbell and Professor Michael McDonnell will reflect on the origins, implementation and benefits of a Work-Integrated-Learning unit…