Reading about assessment for inclusion and distinctiveness
I have had the pdf of the article ‘There was very little room for me to be me’: the lived tensions between assessment standardisation and student diversity” by Nieminen et…
Tag: assessment
Currently reading: Tai et al. (2022) on “Assessment for inclusion: rethinking contemporary strategies in assessment design”
I just read this really interesting and important article about “assessment for inclusion, which seeks to ensure diverse students are not disadvantaged through assessment practices” by Tai et al. (2022).…
“The educational integrity enforcement pyramid: a new framework for challenging and responding to student cheating” by Ellis & Murdoch (2024)
When Rachel writes she agrees that an article is brilliant and important and a ’must read’ for anyone in higher ed involved in/concerned about academic integrity and assessment security, guess…
Unsurprising but important research: there is a sequential bias based on order in which work is presented and then graded in learning management systems (after Wang et al., 2024)
My awesome colleague Rachel Forsyth (of our amazing “trust” paper) sent me a message saying “unsurprising but important research” and then a link to Wang et al. (2024), and that…
Attempting to Assess Key Competencies in Sustainability
In this post, I am bringing together a bunch of thoughts and literature, and try to provide an idea of how to assess key competencies in sustainability. Wish me luck!…
Currently reading: “Sustainable assessment revisited” (Boud & Soler, 2016)
“Sustainable assessment” is about making assessment useful to learning beyond the frame of the course it is related to, not just in terms of retaining the learnt information and skills…
Thinking about assessing sustainability competencies
Current goal: Figuring out how to do assessment of sustainability competencies for a pass/fail course (where the fail option is an actual option*).
Currently reading about authenticity in assessment (Ajjawi et al., 2024)
https://imoox.at/mooc/course/view.php?id=969§ion=4Time for another iEarth Journal Club article summary, this time about authenticity in assessment!
Operationalising and assessing sustainability competencies (some ideas from Wiek et al. (2016) and Redman et al. (2020))
We put a lot of effort into teaching for sustainability, but whether or not we are actually successful in doing so remains unclear until we figure out a way to…
Prompt engineering and other stuff I never thought I would have to teach about
Last week, I thought a very intensive “Introduction to Teaching and Learning” course where we — like all other teachers everywhere — had to address that GAI has made many…
Currently reading: “The impact of grades on student motivation” (Chamberlin et al., 2023)
An argument that I encounter a lot is that student assignments need to be graded in order for students to put in any effort at all. But is that true?…
Currently reading: “Teaching with rubrics: the good, the bad, and the ugly” (Andrade, 2005)
Doing my reading for the monthly iEarth journal club… Thanks for suggesting yet another interesting article, Kirsty! This one is “Teaching with rubrics: the good, the bad, and the ugly” (Andrade,…
Currently reading: “Beyond open book versus closed book: a taxonomy of restrictions in online examinations.” by Dawson, Nicola-Richmond, & Partridge (2023)
If we want to do a valid assessment of what a specific student can do, we need to know what information they had available when producing the artifact we are…
“Mandatory coursework assignments can be, and should be, eliminated!” currently reading Haugan, Lysebo & Lauvas (2017)
The claim in this article’s title, “Mandatory coursework assignments can be, and should be, eliminated!”, is quite a strong one, and maybe not fully supported by the data presented here.…
“Confident Assessment in Higher Education”, by Rachel Forsyth (2023)
I am so lucky to work with so many inspiring colleagues here at Lund University, and today I read my awesome colleague Rachel Forsyth’s new book on “confident assessment in…
Eight criteria for authentic assessment; my takeaways from Ashford-Rowe, Herrington & Brown (2014)
“Authentic assessment” is a bit of a buzzword these days. Posing assessment tasks that resemble problems that students would encounter in the real world later on sounds like a great…
Reducing bias and discrimination in teaching: an annotated, incomplete — WORK IN PROGRESS! — list of references
Already at the time of posting, I have added to my to-read list for an updated version of this post. Please let me know of any additional literature I should…
Using peer feedback to improve students’ writing (Currently reading Huisman et al., 2019)
I wrote about involving students in creating assessment criteria and quality definitions for their own learning on Thursday, and today I want to think a bit about involving students also in…
Co-creating rubrics? Currently reading Fraile et al. (2017)
I’ve been a fan of using rubrics — tables that contain assessment criteria and a scale of quality definitions for each — not just in a summative way to determine…
Letting students choose the format of their assessment
I just love giving students choice: It instantly makes them more motivated and engaged! Especially when it comes to big and important tasks like assessments. One thing that I have…
Assessing participation
One example of how to give grades for participation. One of the most difficult tasks as a teacher is to actually assess how much people have learned, along with give them a…