Availabilities:
Not currently available in 2020
Unit description
Enables current teachers in higher education to advance their understanding of contemporary assessment practice and advance their own practice by a critical engagement with contemporary assessment literature. Participants complete a self-directed project relating to their own higher education assessment context.
Unit content
Topic 1 - Assessment for learning
Topic 2 - Designing assessment schemes
Topic 3 - Marking and feedback
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
Learning outcomes and graduate attributes
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | analyse and discuss the relationship between student learning and assessment | Intellectual rigour | ||||||
| 2 | critically analyse contemporary issues and participate in debates about student assessment | Intellectual rigour | ||||||
| 3 | reflect on own assessment practices and diagnose areas requiring development | Lifelong learning | ||||||
| 4 | critique and reflect on peer review of assessment practice. | Creativity | Lifelong learning | |||||
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
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Commencing 2020 Commonwealth Supported only. Student contribution band: 1
Fee paying courses
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International
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