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- online portfolio
- An electronic version of a portfolio, also referred to as an e-portfolio.
Students post a series of entries of their work online over a set period of time to form a collection of their progress and efforts.
Online portfolios can constitute formative assessment in forms such as a weekly journal in which students were required to develop an awareness of their own writing process providing opportunities for creative and reflexive expression and the potential to cater to diverse student interests. Successful portfolios can be further developed and exhibited in contexts beyond the classroom.
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- online quiz
- A quiz administered online.
Benefits of conducting quizzes using an online platform (such as Blackboard) include: facilitating a large number of participants; immediate results for the instructor as well as the participants; a better overview; off campus access; and the ability to randomise questions and allocate a timer.
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- Online/digital presentation
- In this task students, either individually or in groups, can present on a given topic using a digital platform such as Pinterest or Padlet.
For example, prior to the presentation students can post a link to their Pinterest page on Blackboard and during presentations audience members can use Padlet to leave ‘real-time’ comments about the presentation that inform class discussion. The presenting group is marked on both their presentation and how well they engage the class.
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- oral
- Mode: A range of assessment types (including a presentation) that are required to be completed in a voiced form.
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- oral presentation
- A type of presentation task whereby students communicate through speech to an audience who are usually made up of their peers and instructors. Presenters are often encouraged to use multimedia aids such as prepared handouts and/or PowerPoint slides.
Oral presentations are effective teaching tools which add variety to the classroom and allow students the opportunity to learn from one another. Particular topics can be assigned requiring students to learn more about the subject. The presenting students then take on a teaching role in sharing that new information to the class through their presentation.
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- panel discussion
- A defined group of students (a panel) conduct a discussion in front of an audience.
A student panel discussion task can be based on relevant course topic or discourse such as an assigned reading.
The audience can participate in the discussion and provide input.
This task type draws on an immersive pedagogy in which learning takes place within the interactive exchange between and among students and teachers.
A panel discussion encourages the creative generation of new (cogenerated) knowledge and ideas through critical discussion and fosters collaboration (group work) capabilities which are ranked highly as employable skills.
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- participant observation
- Participating in an activity whilst also observing the activity.
Participant observation is a key method in ethnographic research whereby the researcher (traditionally an anthropologist) takes part in the events they are observing, describing, and analysing. As an assessment task, the ‘ethnographer’ learns from ‘ordinary people’ or local experts via a research process of closely observing, recording, and engaging in the daily life of a group community or ‘culture’, and then writes accounts of this experience, emphasising descriptive detail. Participant observation tasks require the student to take part in the events they study in order to understand local thought and behaviour through experiential learning.
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