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, 25 January, 2023

Cut the copying: tips to discourage plagiarism

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Plagiarism is a growing problem for higher education institutions. Temesgen Kifle and Parvinder Kler share tips for instructors (and students) on how to reduce this form of student academic misconduct
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4minutes
By dene.mullen, 17 January, 2023

ChatGPT has arrived – and nothing has changed

Back to the future
ChatGPT may make it a little easier for students to cheat, but the best ways of thwarting cheating have never been focused on policing and enforcement, says Danny Oppenheimer

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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 11 January, 2023

Tips to make student evaluation fairer for teachers

Balance in student evaluation of teachers SET
Factors unrelated to an instructor’s ability to enhance student learning can influence student evaluation of teaching. So, Temesgen Kifle shares six fair and effective ways to assess educators’ teaching capabilities
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4minutes
By Miranda Prynne, 3 January, 2023

Analytic rubric design fundamentals

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A beginner’s guide to creating an analytic rubric which can be used by tutors to accurately mark and feedback on assignments, but also by students themselves to guide their work
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4minutes
University assessment and quality assurance