Assessment
Overview
This segment of the CELTS website is designed to support staff at the University of Canberra in assessing student learning.
There are sub-sections of the site on resources, assessment at UC, plagiarism in assessment tasks and FAQs about assessment.
Workshops on assessment
Members of CELTS are available to work with school/divisional staff in the area of assessment.
The following sessions, or combinations of these sessions, are samples of what are available.
- Assessment terminology
- Assessment principles
- Lecturers' conceptions of assessment
- Designing assessment
- Designing assessment criteria and using rubrics
- Review of assessment practices within discipline contexts
- Valid and reliable marking
- Assessment within a restuctured course
If any of these sessions are of interest please contact CELTS: phone (5290) or email.
The unit, Assessing Learning in Higher Education G (7599), offered within the Graduate Certificate of Higher Education, may also be of interest. The UC Handbook descriptor for this unit is:
The critical role of assessment in improving student learning is at the core of this unit. The study of assessment is substantially grounded in the scholarship of teaching and systematically covers concepts from the literature, teachers conceptions of assessment and constructive alignment of assessment with the curriculum and UC graduate attributes. The importance of feedback is highlighted, as well as the promotion of good assessment practice in small and large classes, group learning contexts, online environments and off-shore settings.
More detail is available by clicking here.
Quick links on assessment
| General resources on assessment |
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| Assessment at UC |
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| Plagiarism in assessment tasks |
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| FAQs about assessment at UC |
Answers to the FAQ questions are searchable but they are generally structured around the categories below and these are based on the Table of Contents in the UC Assessment Policy.
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