Week 7: Assessment: Module Overview

  Watch the following video introducing this module.

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This module will provide you with an introduction to some important elements of assessment, and the management of assessment risk through the application of assessment quality practices, including moderation. This module will help you, as a participant new to teaching in higher education, to develop your understanding of the purposes of assessment and your role in the assessment process (assessment design, communication, marking, analysis of results and feedback). You will explore the assessment types in your unit, and reflect on how rubrics are used for marking and student feedback. This module will also provide an introduction to the assessment of group work.

In this module, you will increase your understanding of academic integrity, plagiarism and academic misconduct. By examining good practice principles for their prevention, detection and management, you will develop strategies on how you can minimise the impact of breaches of academic integrity on student learning and assessment quality.

Feedback is central to learning and assessment. It is strongly recommended that Module 3. Feedback for learning is completed prior to completing this module on assessment. 

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this module, you should be able to: 

• identify your role in assessment, and how you can assure quality in assessment, marking, and in student results; 
• find your institution’s Academic Integrity policy and procedures; and 
• explain your responsibility in managing Academic Integrity and plagiarism in your role.

Note that some colleagues who completed this module took more than two hours to do so.