Assessment Overview
A well-designed assessment will not only ensure that students have engaged with the content that you want them to have covered, but that they have achieved the learning outcomes you intended: new skills, new understandings etc. Here you will note the general feature of the assessment for this learning session; you will design the actual assessment activity (or activities) separately.
- Is this a diagnostic, formative or summative assessment?
- What are the assessment criteria for this session? If the assessment criteria are laid out in a separate document, you can include here a reference to that document instead of writing the criteria out in full.
If you are designing assessment criteria for the first time, you might find the following Websites helpful:
A good practice guide from the University of Wollongong, Australia
An introduction to constructing assessment criteria from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the University of Hong Kong. This site has a link to a page of useful resources.
- Add any other notes relevant to the assessment. For example, if this learning session is part of a non-accredited course, do you need to record students’ progress and achievement (e.g. RARPA)? How/where will you do this?
