University assessment and quality assurance

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 Laura.Duckett, 12 March, 2025

Canva and ChatGPT for feedback and academic support

A teacher designing an infographic on her laptop
Don’t bore your students with lengthy, written feedback. Here are ways to make it more visually appealing and how to use custom GPTs to offer extra academic support
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 10 March, 2025

Assessment or measurement?

Measurement concept illustration
Authentic assessments and measurements serve distinct purposes in understanding student success in higher education. Here’s why equating the two can undermine the depth and quality of student learning
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 18 February, 2025

Voice, agency and style: what goes missing when AI chats back

Asian student concentrating on laptop
We need to teach that imperfect but authentic writing is more valuable than sentences that are polished on the surface, argue three US academics. Here, they share surprise findings from STEM and beyond
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5minutes
By Laura.Duckett, 17 February, 2025

How can we assess interdisciplinarity?

People sat around a table slotting cogs together
Effectively assessing interdisciplinarity involves encouraging students to ask the right questions and critically evaluating the quality of the knowledge created, explains Simon Scott
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5minutes
University assessment and quality assurance