University assessment and quality assurance

Insight on strategies to improve university assessment for students and educators. Here, academics offer guidance on assessment design, covering formative, summative and diagnostic approaches, authentic assessment and how to give useful feedback. You will also find advice on exam preparation, ungrading, managing GenAI, preventing cheating and upholding academic integrity. 

By kiera.obrien, 12 June, 2025
As students increasingly use generative AI to craft assessment appeals, university staff face new challenges in maintaining the integrity of academic feedback. Here’s how we can adapt to preserve meaningful learning relationships in the face of optimisation
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4minutes
By kiera.obrien, 6 June, 2025
Programmatic assessment offers a better way to train doctors, making them more resilient and giving them the tools to manage their own professional development. Gozie Offiah explains how it works
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4minutes
By kiera.obrien, 26 May, 2025
Students dealing with dyslexia and other specific learning difficulties may struggle in the classroom more than their peers. With their number increasing, here’s how to give them the space they need to learn
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4minutes
By miranda.prynne, 23 May, 2025
Threat or opportunity? Advice for using, managing and embedding artificial intelligence in university assessment, skills development and task design
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5minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 29 April, 2025
Generative AI is forcing university educators to raise their own bar on creativity, assessment and expectations. Here’s how one teacher reassessed their assignment
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4minutes