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 Laura.Duckett, 18 July, 2024

Students need a balanced diet of assessment practices

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Let's evaluate the process and products of our assessments and incorporate innovative elements to better emulate real-world tasks, write David Tree, Stephanie Baines, Pauldy Otermans, Nicholas Worsfold and Emily Hobson
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5minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 12 July, 2024

Why I ban AI use for writing assignments

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Students may see handwriting essays in class as a needlessly time-consuming approach to assignments, but I want them to learn how to engage with arguments, develop their own views and convey them effectively, writes James Stacey Taylor
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4minutes
By Laura.Duckett, 1 July, 2024

Giving students options when it comes to assessment

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Students working at their laptops
By identifying the types of feasible options in assessment and discussing them with your students, you will naturally build their confidence in their assessment, writes Miriam Firth
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 25 June, 2024

RIP assessment?

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Illustration of human and robot in an arm wrestle
How can educators make learning and human intelligence visible in the age of GenAI? Abby Osborne and Christopher Bonfield outline a model to rethink assessment and reward non-AI knowledge and understanding
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4minutes
University assessment and quality assurance