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- formative
- Formative assessments are those conducted during the course rather than at the end of the course. Assessments at the end of the course of study are termed ‘summative assessments’, and assess understanding upon completion of the learning experience. In contrast, formative assessments are conducted during the learning process and enable both the student and the course coordinator to gauge how successfully knowledge is being acquired.
Formative assessments allow course coordinators to monitor student learning and provide ongoing feedback, as well as to make adjustments to the course to maximise learning.
Formative assessments allow students to gauge how well they are learning and indicate areas that the student may be required to make more effort.
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- genre writing
- An assessment task in which students are required to write in the style of a selected genre.
Genre writing is primarily designed to teach students to adhere to stylistic requirements.
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- group work
- An assessment activity completed collaboratively by two or more students to achieve shared learning outcomes. Group work often requires coordination, communication, and collective responsibility for producing a final submission.
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- Hurdle
- Condition: an asessment item is said to be a hurdle where there is more than one assessment item but student performance in the item has an impact on the overall course grade in excess of the item's weighting. An example is an oral exam in which the course cannot be passed unless the student passes that exam.
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- inclusive
- Designed to ensure that all students can participate and demonstrate their learning regardless of background, identity, ability, or circumstance. Inclusive assessment practices aim to reduce barriers and provide equitable opportunities for success.
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- international fieldwork
- Fieldwork conducted in an international setting.
Examples include archaeological field schools.
International field schools can vary in lengths (from 2 to 5 weeks) and assessment deadlines may occur before, during, or after the travel period.
Assessment may include an overall participation mark, fieldwork, journals, on-site presentations, and final research essays.
As this assessment format requires highly motivated, responsible students, student acceptance is ideally based on overall GPA and/or an interview process.
This assessment is well suited to summer semesters as it does not interfere with students’ normal schedules. This assessment requires staff to plan details well in advance.
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- interpreting
- Students listen to a speaker and are then students are marked on how effectively they convey the meaning of what the speaker said.
Interpreting assessments are most common in language studies but this assessment model could be adapted to any courses which seek to develop skills to effectively communicate orally in response to unfolding stimuli, reinterpreting messages for specific client needs, and liaising with stakeholders to deliver specialised oral (or written) outputs.
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- interview
- The collection of data by asking people questions.
Students could be asked to interview a research participant or a peer about a specified topic.
There are three different formats of interviews: structured, semi-structured and unstructured.
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- media production
- Assessments that require students to produce media.
Media can consist of video, audio, still images, or text.
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