Assessment
Resources
Assessment is a core part of teaching and learning and is central to the learning process. This web site provides you with information related to assessment.
Overview
What is assessment?
Assessment has many purposes. This section of the web site introduces the importance of assessment and brings together University of South Australia and key external resources and references related to understanding the purpose of assessment.
Designing assessment
This section focuses on how assessment needs to be valid and directly aligned to the objectives of a particular course. It also introduces how the amount of student effort to complete an assessment task needs to be quantified relative to the course unit value to ensure consistency of student workload across the University. Resources and references from UniSA and external resources related to assessment design are presented.
Giving feedback
Standard forms of feedback are required for each assessment item at UniSA. This section of the web site presents the principles of giving feedback, examples of good practice and downloadable standard assessment templates. Additional approaches to giving feedback, and resources and references from UniSA and external sources related to feedback, are presented.
Grading
This section provides an overview of grading principles, the UniSA context and policy related to grading, case studies, and further resources about grading.
Graduate Qualities
In order to guarantee that our graduates develop graduate qualities, the achievement of these skills need to be embedded within our assessment tasks. Each marking criteria can be aligned to one or more Graduate quality indicators for your program. Included in this section are tools for auditing and reshaping assessment to realise the Graduate qualities for your program.
Group work
Working collaboratively is a part of Graduate Quality 4. Principles, case studies and resources related to assessing group work are available in this section.
Moderation
Moderation ensures parity in assessment. There are several areas that need to be considered. The most common is moderating when there are multiple markers of an assignment. Moderation also ensures all courses in a program are graded similarly and that programs offered at UniSA compare well to programs offered in other higher education institutions. The cost of moderation needs to be balanced against the associated risk.
Online assessment
UniSA utilises flexible teaching and learning approaches and this also extends to assessment. This section of the web site presents the UniSA context, tools, benefits and issues related to online assessment.
Supporting assessment
Through Learning Connection, teaching staff can arrange for student support in relation to assessment through various approaches. This section of the web site describes why, what and how you can utilise this service to improve student learning outcomes in your course.
We hope you find this site useful. Please forward any feedback to Diana Quinn or any Academic development staff member from Learning Connection.