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 Miranda Prynne, 5 October, 2022

Student diaries as a tool to improve the university experience

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Do you really know what your students experience during their studies? It is more complex than many surveys suggest. Using student diaries may support deeper understanding to improve student experiences, as Dan Herbert explains
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3minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 7 September, 2022

In the loop: how formative feedback supports remote teaching

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Weekly snapshots of how students see their own progress can help teachers adjust teaching methods in real time. An online tool piloted at Georgia Tech has helped fill a feedback loop lost during the pandemic
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4minutes
By Miranda Prynne, 12 August, 2022

Please follow the following: user guidance tasks as assessments

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Challenging students to create user guidance manuals relevant to their subject, explaining how something should be used or carried out, is an effective way to assess their applied knowledge, Russ Woodward and Nicola Pattinson explain
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4minutes
University assessment and quality assurance