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This CATL (Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning) session is designed for all teaching staff who have an interest in designing better assessment items.

Assessment is, indeed has always been, a practice that is central to all teaching institutions. It happens, often, so instinctively that little thought goes into whether it is as good as it could be.

Questions like the following are often not examined:

• What is the difference between an exceptionally good piece of assessment and a poor piece of assessment?
• Over and above testing what students have learnt and retained, what should assessment offer the students?
• How often and in what form should assessment take place?
• What is the relationship between feedback and assessment?
• When and how often should formative and summative assessment be utilised?
• What role does well designed assessment have in minimising the potential for plagiarism?

These and other crucial elements of good assessment will be examined in this workshop. For purposes of critiquing (for better or worse) actual assessment items, participants are encouraged to bring exemplars, together with the outline of the unit to which it belongs.

At the end of the session, you will:

• Have a better understanding of the value of a well designed piece of assessment;
• Be able to ensure that the assessment process offers a learning opportunity for students;
• Be able to design assessment items that reduce the potential for academic misconduct (plagiarism and collusion).

The key activities during the workshop will be:

• Group and paired discussions;
• Examination of exemplars.

The details of the workshop are as follows:
Date: Wednesday, 23 September 2009
Time: 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Venue: Seminar Room 1, Love House, 28 Broadway, Crawley (Cnr of Cooper Street)

For further information or to register please visit the website .

Media references

Magdalena Matuszczyk / [email protected] / 6488 4277