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, 29 April, 2025

When GenAI resets the assessment baseline

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Using AI for university assessment
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
By Eliza.Compton, 12 April, 2025

Should we kill the essay?

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Should we kill the essay?
Long-form writing seems to have become a battleground for the showdown between AI and academic integrity. With technology exposing the essay’s flaws, Luke Zaphir offers ways to reinforce this storied assessment task
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 11 April, 2025

Reshaping assessment to outsmart AI

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Chameleon illustrating change
Adapting common assessment types can not only deter the overuse of AI – and avoid administration overload – but support student learning in a more authentic and engaging manner
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By Laura.Duckett, 8 April, 2025

How to talk to students about their writing

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A teacher smiling to camera holding a student's paper
Verbal feedback can encourage students to think critically and independently about their language learning and improve future work. These tips explain how to put the method into practice
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By Eliza.Compton, 4 April, 2025

The power of a 30-minute meeting

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One on one language coaching
One-to-one coaching sessions with students are an ideal forum to share individualised feedback, advice for academic and professional growth, and ways to build learner self-efficacy and confidence. Here’s how they support student success in a global classroom
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 2 April, 2025

How to enhance the accuracy of GenAI models

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AI accuracy concept
Generative AI seems to offer ways to provide individualised feedback to large cohorts but can these models be relied on to give students accurate, relevant responses? Here are three approaches for educators to try
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University assessment and quality assurance