Assessing Learning in Australian Universities
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Minimising plagiarism
Understanding plagiarism, why it occurs and planning appropriate
responses.
36 strategies to minimise
plagiarism
Strategies gathered from a range of sources, including suggestions
and advice from the Australian academic community.
Assessing large classes
Five major challenges relating to the assessment of large
classes and appropriate responses to those strategies.
Assessing group
work
The rationale for group work, common issues and concerns,
designing effective group activities, suggestions for assessment
options and determining grades.
Assessing students
unfamiliar with assessment practices in Australian higher
education
Helping students understand assessment expectations, overcoming
six assessment challenges, the debate on compensatory grading
for international students.
A new era in assessing student
learning
The assessment issues currently facing higher education.
Core principles
Checklist for quality in student assessment, the student's
view of assessment, reconsidering the role of assessment.
Tips for new staff
Basic advice on assessment, including 12 principles of effective
assessment.
On-line assessment
Discussion of the benefits and costs of on-line assessment.
34 strategies for developing effective on-line assessment.
Quality and standards
What individual academics can do about standards.
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Minimising plagiarism
Understanding plagiarism, why it occurs and planning appropriate
responses. Includes 36 strategies to minimise plagiarism.
Advice on plagiarism
detection software
Effectiveness of software, guide to available packages,
comparison of features.
A new era in assessing student
learning
The assessment issues currently facing higher education.
Core principles
Checklist for quality in student assessment, the student's
view of assessment, reconsidering the role of assessment.
Tips for new staff
Basic advice on assessment, including 12 principles of effective
assessment.
Assessing group work
The rationale for group work, common issues and concerns,
designing effective group activities, suggestions for assessment
options and determining grades.
Immersing a faculty in
assessment: Making an organisational cultural shift
Case study of the faculty of business at Queensland Univeristy
of Technology. An example of how a sustained focus on assessment
issues can provide the vehicle for discussion of the wider
curriculum and the quality of student learning. A useful
blueprint for considering how a similar change process could
be undertaken in other settings.
Assessing students unfamiliar
with assessment practices in Australian higher education
Helping students understand assessment expectations, overcoming
six assessment challenges, the debate on compensatory grading
for international students.
Advice for students
unfamiliar with assessment practices in Australian higher
education
Practical guide for students, including how to overcome
issues associated with unintentional cheating, tutorial
participation, group work, communicating in Australian English,
oral presentations.
A model assessment plan
A model of good practice in assessment in higher education.
The evolution of assessment from 1st year to 4th year Engineering
at Deakin University, including the underpinning assessment
principles, methods and rationale.
A comparison of norm-referencing
and criterion-referencing methods for determining student
grades in higher education
Definitions and comparison of two grading methods.
On-line assessment
Discussion of the benefits and costs of on-line assessment.
34 strategies for developing effective on-line assessment.
Quality and standards
What individual academics can do about standards.
Renewing policy and
practice: Frameworks for institutional, faculty and department
action policy
Practical ways in which assessment policy and practice can
be reviewed and renewed.
Source: AUTC
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