Going beyond grades - evaluative thinking and approaches to humanise assessments
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2022, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Location: Online
- Cost: Free to University staff
- More information:
- Contact: Agnes Bosanquet Regional Director, D2L Australia
- Tony Maguire Regional Director, D2L Australia
- Lis Conde (Ph.D.) Learning Designer, Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership
- Mark Ricksen Principal Product Manager, Assessment Services, Turnitin
As the landscape of teaching and learning evolves, a familiar question persists - which assessment practices and approaches will best support our cohort of learners and how do we make assessment work for learning?
This webcast brings together experts in the further education space and evaluates effective methods to develop competency-based and authentic assessments. We’ll look at strategies to go beyond grades and explore evaluative thinking in the design of formative assessments as a method and process of evidence collection.
The session will cover:
- Exploring approaches to humanise assessments, and use cases and trends in further education
- Unpacking what makes for a robust assessment and what designing for authenticity entails
- Approaches to design co