Assessment in first year – what the evidence tells us
Transition to university in 2022 Throughout 2020 and much of 2021, students will have had variable school experiences, with fewer opportunities to learn study skills,…
authentic assessment
[1B1] Improving student learning and academic integrity by replacing exams with supported authentic reflections
As a foundation unit for the Masters of commence, MKTG5001 would often be the only marketing unit students would undertake in their studies. This…
[Assessment or curriculum-wide shifts] Students assessing students – transforming the testing and development of practical skills [2C]
For the practical exam in this core first-year unit of study, instead of in-person practical skills exams, we used Canvas Quizzes to deliver an…
Horses for courses – finding the humanity in remote teaching and assessment
Dr Nesrine Basheer joined the School of Languages and Culture in 2015, and hasn’t looked back. With a PhD in Arabic Linguistics, her passion…
Summative assessments in the time of COVID-19: Balancing anxiety, workload, and integrity
The situation we’re all in this year has meant a complete rethink of not only how we teach, but also how we assess. Some…
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…
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…