Considering how assessment impacts on student learning has long been central to our thinking in higher education, but Covid-19 has brought this even more sharply into focus, requiring us to consider how assessment approaches and practices can engage and motivate students. Accordingly, returning to former excessive over-use of unseen, time-constrained on-campus exams doesn't seem sensible […]
GMIT School of Business Workshop
This 2-hour online session will provide an introduction to experiential learning methodology and its assessment across the full range of university courses from classroom instruction, practicum projects and clinical educational settings. The session will itself be conducted with interactive, participatory methods and will provide opportunities for participants to customise the principles to their own teaching […]
Remote e-proctoring was an established practice in some specific contexts prior to the COVID pandemic; however, with the onset of the pandemic and the ensuing need to deliver alternative and online assessment procedures, e-proctoring has become a very topical issue and has been discussed, trialled and implemented widely both nationally and internationally. In this webinar, […]
A keynote presentation on the topic of 'pedagogy of care' will be delivered by Maha Bali from the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo. Contributions will also be made by Dean O'Reilly, DCU Students' Union, Caroline Mahon, DCU Healthy and Prof. Alan Smeaton, DCU School of Computing. The seminar will […]
“A few years ago, I conducted a literature review on rubric development for a book chapter I’d been asked to write. I learned so much that I’ve since done some conference presentations titled “Everything I Thought I Knew About Rubrics Was Wrong!” Well, that’s not quite true, but lightbulbs came on for me regarding what […]
Discussion of new assessment & feedback mechanisms for placement /opportunities for sharing ideas & experiences for all involved in placement.
The Re-imagining Assessment & Feedback for Student Success Symposium will take place on June 2nd and will kick off with a keynote address from Dr Naomi Winstone, Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Surrey. A series of guest speakers, who are dedicated to the development of teaching and learning in Irish higher education, […]
Assessment has been on everybody’s minds recently. At our conference ‘Let’s Talk About Assessment 2023: Rethinking Assessment in Higher Education’ in the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Dublin on Monday, 30 January 2023, we will be exploring live questions with peers, students, national and international experts. Whatever your role is in assessment – whether you are […]
