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Minimising plagiarism
Understanding plagiarism, why it occurs and planning appropriate
responses.
36
strategies to minimise plagiarism
Strategies gathered from a range of sources, including suggestions
and advice from the Australian academic community.
Assessing
large classes
Five major challenges relating to the assessment of large classes
and appropriate responses to those strategies.
Assessing
group work
The rationale for group work, common issues and concerns, designing
effective group activities, suggestions for assessment options
and determining grades.
Assessing
students unfamiliar with assessment practices in Australian higher
education
Helping students understand assessment expectations, overcoming
six assessment challenges, the debate on compensatory grading
for international students.
A
new era in assessing student learning
The assessment issues currently facing higher education.
Core
principles
Checklist for quality in student assessment, the student's view
of assessment, reconsidering the role of assessment.
Tips
for new staff
Basic advice on assessment, including 12 principles of effective
assessment.
On-line
assessment
Discussion of the benefits and costs of on-line assessment. 34
strategies for developing effective on-line assessment.
Quality
and standards
What individual academics can do about standards.
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Minimising
plagiarism
Understanding plagiarism, why it occurs and planning appropriate
responses. Includes 36 strategies to minimise plagiarism.
Advice
on plagiarism detection software
Effectiveness of software, guide to available packages, comparison
of features.
Assessing
large classes
Five major challenges relating to the assessment of large classes
and appropriate responses
to those strategies.
A
new era in assessing student learning
The assessment issues currently facing higher education.
Core
principles
Checklist for quality in student assessment, the student's view
of assessment, reconsidering the role of assessment.
Tips
for new staff
Basic advice on assessment, including 12 principles of effective
assessment.
Assessing
group work
The rationale for group work, common issues and concerns, designing
effective group activities, suggestions for assessment options
and determining grades.
Immersing
a faculty in assessment: Making an organisational cultural shift
Case study of the faculty of business at Queensland Univeristy
of Technology. An example of how a sustained focus on assessment
issues can provide the vehicle for discussion of the wider curriculum
and the quality of student learning. A useful blueprint for considering
how a similar change process could be undertaken in other settings.
Assessing
students unfamiliar with assessment practices in Australian higher
education
Helping students understand assessment expectations, overcoming
six assessment challenges, the debate on compensatory grading
for international students.
Advice
for students unfamiliar with assessment practices in Australian
higher education
Practical guide for students, including how to overcome issues
associated with unintentional cheating, tutorial participation,
group work, communicating in Australian English, oral presentations.
A
model assessment plan
A model of good practice in assessment in higher education.
The evolution of assessment from 1st year to 4th year Engineering
at Deakin University, including the underpinning assessment principles,
methods and rationale.
A
comparison of norm-referencing and criterion-referencing methods
for determining student grades in higher education
Definitions and comparison of two grading methods.
On-line
assessment
Discussion of the benefits and costs of on-line assessment. 34
strategies for developing effective on-line assessment.
Quality
and standards
What individual academics can do about standards.
Renewing
policy and practice: Frameworks for institutional, faculty and
department action policy
Practical ways in which assessment policy and practice can be
reviewed and renewed.
