Assessment
"Simply by changing the assessment of your subject you can affect the way students engage with the subject content."
Assessment is a powerful force in student learning. From the students' perspective only the most important activities in a subject are assessed.
The UTS assessment principles stress that assessment is criteria-referenced, formative and authentic.
Simply by changing the assessment of your subject you can affect the way students engage with the subject content. A review of the literature shows that finding the right balance of student workload, goal alignment and formative feedback is likely to have the greatest impact on improving student learning. The four elements of the UTS Assessment Strategy are:
- Developing explicit outcomes and criteria
- Writing formative feedback
- Involving students in assessment
- Streamlining marking
The IML Assessment Series provides a range of short guides on each of these elements. Each guide presents information and examples of a different approach to assessment with a short case study provided by staff at UTS.
To help shape the assessment section so that it meets your needs and interests, we invite you to comment on any of the resources published here. Please send comments and suggestions to Peter.Kandlbinder@uts.edu.au.