Assessment exemplars

Example 1 - Role-playing midwives

Jill Scanlan uses a real-life scenario to give her midwifery students an authentic role-playing experience.

Example 2 - Integrated assessment with an optional assignment

Roslyn Reilly's students gain a better understanding of research processes through an integrated assessment scheme of three compulsory parts and one optional component.

Example 3 - Integrating essential skills

Birgit Loch, Linda Galligan and Jill Lawrence use a full-program approach with nursing, maths, IT and literacy skills and knowledge integrated into the work at every stage.

Example 4 - A combined approach

Charmaine Ryan uses a combination of exam and group-work with an individual component.

Example 5 - Evaluating sources

Linda De George-Walker has a scheme that includes the requirement that students must evaluate the relevance and credibility of their sources.

Example 6 - Problem-based learning with a self-assessment component

Linda De George-Walker uses a four-part scheme and requires students to mark some of their own work.

Example 7 - Encouraging critical thinking

Lorelle Burton uses an assessment scheme that is designed to build students' academic skills and encourage critical thinking right from the start of their studies.

Example 8 - A practical programming task

Mark Phythian's assessment task is a design-based programming task in assembly language, ie the language at the level of the microprocessor

Example 9 - Aligning learning objectives and marking effectively

Peter Gibbings maps learning objectives to the assessment scheme and uses spreadsheets for quick and effective marking.

Example 10 - Ongoing practical assessments

Martin Crook assesses students' musical performances in an ongoing process.

Example 11 - Hands-on experience and higher order thinking skills

Kim Southey uses a complementary scheme that gives students a practical, hands-on recruitment experience as well as developing academic skills.

Example 12 - Using Moodle quizzes to encourage student engagement

This is a Camtasia Relay presentation by Michael Baczynski, Lujer Santacruz and Dr Peter Phillips, all from the Faculty of Business. The presentation focuses on the use of Moodle quizzes to encourage student engagement, increase the flexibility of assessment tasks and reduce overall teaching workload through the semester.

Specifically, it outlines the use of the essay format in the course FIN2105: Portfolio Management.

Example 13 - Using different techniques and technologies for assessment and feedback

This is a Camtasia Studio presentation using a Tablet PC by Gabriela Pohl from the Faculty of Arts. In this presentation Gabriela shows some of her strategies for teaching German via distance to Faculty of Arts Community of Practice members.