Rubrics, Assessment and eProctoring in Education

Standardised tests or exams have been in place in a number of educational systems for nearly two centuries. They are rooted in reformers’ desire to regulate schooling and hold educators accountable.

As colleges ask faculty to prepare for a possible online, hybrid or altered in-person fall semester—or all three simultaneously—many instructors ar

Cheating is not a technological problem, but a social and pedagogical problem. Technology is often blamed for creating the conditions in which cheating proliferates and is then offered as the solution to the problem it created; both claims are false.

A teacher writes about how this pandemic has proved that students need feedback, not grades.

A mesmerising, unaccountable kind of algorithm – machine learning – is blinding governments to the technology’s often disastrous flaws

Cramming for exams can result in short-term memorisation rather than meaningful learning.

About eight per cent of students admitted to taking an exam for someone else and 4.2 per cent admitted someone else had done their exam.

We need to intentionally design for student success by leveraging tools and pedagogical strategies such as transparent assignment design.

We explore the area of assessment in a remote and potentially asynchronous learning environment.

With so many classes online during the pandemic—many of them taught by professors still struggling to figure out how to teach in the format—student

The consequences of the pandemic should provide an opportunity for school and community leaders to rethink their loyalty to exam-focused learning and consider innovating their programmes to put students at the centre.

How to Write More Valid and Readable Multiple-Choice Assessments

More than ever workers want feedback, and if managers can't give it other colleagues can.

Rates of cheating have snowballed at the University of NSW, a leaked report reveals, including 139 science students who hired ghost writers from Chinese messaging site WeChat to complete their work.