Key takeaways In all of my time as a teacher and learning designer, the resounding reason why educators don’t work on improving their courses is
Category: exam performance
Is Interactive Oral assessment the answer to AI concerns?
As a way to ensure academic integrity, a proposed solution is for any handwritten submission to be accompanied by an Interactive Oral assessment component, or
Making feedback worth everyone’s time
Tutor feedback and student learning should be inseparable. If they become uncoupled, the formative aspect of assessment is lost. (Orsmondet al., 2000) Well-timed and directed
THE POWER OF MAKING CONNECTIONS
”As the student accommodates this new learning into their LTM, then the complexity of the next task can be increased. As Ericsson and Kintsch (1995)
Rubric Design – the great balancing act
I’ve written before about rubrics in higher education, and the need for pragmatism in weighing up their costs vs their benefits. Critics of rubrics cite
To Rubric, or Not to Rubric
Discussions around rubrics are not new. Over the past few years, the pedagogy of rubrics has enjoyed acclaim and notoriety in equal measure. A paper