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 Eliza.Compton, 28 April, 2023

Writing exam questions in a six-step process

Pile of exam papers
Writing exam questions is a meticulous, complex and creative part of teaching. The habit of using a standardised process will make this frequent task more manageable, writes Fiona Lifen Liu
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3minutes
By dene.mullen, 19 April, 2023

How ChatGPT can help disrupt assessment overload

ChatGPT and AI can be used to aid university assessment
Advances in AI are not necessarily the enemy – in fact, they should prompt long overdue consideration of assessment types and frequency, says David Carless
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4minutes
By Miranda Prynne, 7 April, 2023

Scales, stars and numbers: the question of evaluation

Five stars
Marking schemes are a recurring source of contention in academic discussions, where the key word is evaluation. Daniel Jutras offers a brief reflection on the art of grading and feedback
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4minutes
By Miranda Prynne, 4 April, 2023

AI text detectors: a stairway to heaven or hell?

Robot looking through a microscope
The emergence of GPTZero, OpenAI’s text classifier and Turnitin’s AI detector bring a risk of over-reliance on AI classifiers. Are they a solution or a further problem to be solved?
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4minutes
University assessment and quality assurance