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Asking students to engage with every answer choice can foster critical thinking and productive failure. 
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Assessment is perhaps the area, like no other, where the utility of information technology in education is tested. The possibilities for assessing using these technologies are expanding rapidly
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ABSTRACTContract cheating occurs when a student outsources their assessment to a third party, regardless of the third party’s relationship with the student, or whether money is exchanged. I
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Scalable Authentic Assessment in the Information Age
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Reverting to paper tests should only be a stop-gap measure as keeping NAPLAN offline deprives students and teachers of the best data.
Peter Mellow's insight:
Actually it is very hard, and connectivity is only part of it. Monash sent up a large assessment centre for their e-exams/eAssessment. Slides are here: https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/scalable-authentic-assessment-in-the-information-age
The video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRTM1XuhgBA
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Online learning is becoming increasingly popular and widespread, and is now reaching into compulsory education. Teachers in schools are considering the extent to which common pedagogical methods can be adapted into online environments, or whether they need to be completely revised and reconceptualised.
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A two-year project to understand the assessment-related anxieties which first-year students in Aotearoa New Zealand may experience.
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Contextualising why assessment is still the single most important factor affecting student learning in higher education, this second edition of Innovative Assessment in Higher Education: A Handbook for Academic Practitioners offers a critical discourse…
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Families are braced for end-of-year reports but Australia's leading testing authority says teachers should be grading students continuously throughout the year.
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This year's English exam was more straight-forward than usual, asking students to analyse an advertorial about a grocery store's decision to go cashless. “a nice reminder for students that the exam is not there to stump them but to allow them to show their knowledge”.
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The school has been forced to apologise after the image went viral on Twitter.
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High stakes assessments are a physical, logistical, and technical challenge, but the payoffs for a successful implementation are huge. AWS gives us the ability…
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Learning occurs as the result of interaction between learners and their environment. When the learning has a planned outcome, it becomes a purposeful activity that requires the artistry and skill of a learning designer.
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A student’s first assessment at university can be a defining moment in their future success, new research led by Deakin University shows.
Peter Mellow's insight:
Make the first one easy and low value so all can taste accomplishment and believe that they can succeed in HigherEd.
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Students entering higher education are increasingly diverse, and their early experiences of assessment can play a significant role in shaping their self-efficacy, motivation and approaches to learn…
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Link thanks to @DULearnFutures
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Relying on exams and essays to assess students excludes those with disabilities and ignores the real purpose of higher education, Ruth Payne writes
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There are many fad and buzz words in the higher education sphere. Most recently the term
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