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Assessment categories

The Assessment Ideas Factory uses multiple categorisation sets (taxonomies). Each taxonomy has a particular purpose.

High security: High security assessment provides confidence that the student completed the work through controlled conditions that reduce the opportunities to cheat and make the detection of misconduct likely.
Medium security: Medium security assessment implements controls to reduce the options for cheating and / or raise the likelihood of detection of misconduct, but not to the level of high security.
Low security: Low security assessment has minimal control on the conditions for students completing the assessment task, with little limit on the possibilities for cheating and limited options to identify where misconduct occurs.

Conditions refer to policy implementations or restrictions. A single assessment item can require more than one condition.

Group: Two or more students work together and are marked on their shared document, product, or performance
Identity verified: The assessor has high confidence that an assessment item was completed by the student. This commonly involves observation or invigilation under exam conditions.
Peer-assessed: One or more students judge the work or performance of another student.
Sequence: An assessment sequence is a set of two or more assessment tasks of similar nature or common purpose, which may be used as developmental learning opportunities for students or to comprehensively assess a particular learning outcome. The sequence may be used progressively or at significant points in a course.
Time-limited: Students are given a certain number of hours to complete their assessments.
Work-related: The assessment item either simulates the workplace, or is conducted in a workplace

Mode refers to the format of the assessed item. A single assessment item can have more than one mode.

Activity: Students are evaluated on their performance, such as in a clinical setting
Oral: Students are evaluated in a speaking task, such as a presentation
Product: Students are evaluated an artefact they produce, such as a poster
Written: A range of assessment types (including a report, article, essay) that are required to be designed, constructed and submitted in a written form.