Teaching and Learning Enhancement Reference

Assessment
 
Metasites
Assessment Forum. The major metasite on assessment in higher education which includes links to other metasites, assessment glossaries, and organizations interested in higher education assessment.

Deliberations: assessment. This site includes articles on assessment, links to papers from the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, and links to other assessment organizations.

Internet resources for higher education outcomes assessment. An American site that includes links to American university assessment-related pages.
 
Major sites
The following sites include a large number of high quality resources.

 This section of the LTSN Generic Centre website contains seventeen recent (2001) resources in the form of briefing papers and guides, including, for example, briefings on plagiarism and self-, peer, and group assessment, and guides for lecturers and heads of department.

Online assessment resources. A set of stimulating articles on assessment in higher education, and a list of online assessment discussion lists, from the American Association for Higher Education. Articles include the seminal Nine Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning.

Assessing learning in Australian universities. This recent (2002) major report on assessment in higher education contains strategies, examples, tips and ready-to-use resources for teachers in higher education. It is rich, well structured, clearly written and highly recommended.

Assessment. Teaching and Educational Development Unit, The University of Queensland. Includes a process and tools for designing assessment in a module, and downloadable papers on group assessment and assessment for learning.
 
Assessment and learning
Doing assessment as if learning matters most. Tom Angelo. Presents "a vision worth working towards" for improving assessment through developing a learning community-like culture.

How assessment influences student learning a literature review. Graham Gibbs and Claire Simpson, Centre for Higher Education Practice, Open University. Reviews literature according to 11 conditions required for assessment to support learning.

Assessment and learning - unlearning bad habits of assessment. David Boud, University of Technology, Sydney. Proposes an agenda for assessment and suggests eight criteria for assessment tasks.

 John Biggs paper for the LTSN Generic Centre outlines his notion of constructive alignment? of teaching methods, learning activities, and assessment.

Introduction to Classroom Assessment Techniques. Diane M. Enerson, Kathryn M. Plank, and R. Neill Johnson, Penn State Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching. Introduces techniques for monitoring learning throughout the semester.

Assessment that Promotes Learning. John P. Lowe, Penn State Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching. Outlines several techniques to improve how students learn and what they value.

Assessment for Learning. Geoff Isaacs, TEDI, University of Queensland. A downloadable booklet from the Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Series. The rest of the TEDI site is worth exploring.
 
Self- and peer-assessment

Briefing paper: peer and self assessment. Geoff Isaacs, TEDI, University of Queensland. A short guide on how to do it, with a brief annotated bibliography.

Self and peer assessment Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Notes on facilitating learning, judging and grading, and reducing lecturer workload.
 
Portfolio assessment
Alverno Diagnostic Digital portfolio. You can only access the FAQs and slideshow on this site, but they are worth a visit given Alverno leadership in higher education assessment.
 
Group assessment
"Group Assessment" - Assessment of Students on Group-Based Tasks - Issues and Options. Geoff Isaacs, The Teaching and Educational Development Institute, The University of Queensland. A thorough coverage of the key issues, including allocating individual marks to group projects.

Group Assessment Tasks and Assessing Groups. Flinders University. A short statement on the benefits, problems and strategies of group assessment.

Phil Race. Learning and Teaching Support Network. “The briefing explores how to introduce and implement these different forms of assessment, and discusses the extent to which they can be made valid, reliable and transparent to students.”
 
Authentic assessment

Grant Wiggins. ERIC Digest. From the author of perhaps the most frequently cited paper on authentic assessment.