Assessment and feedback

Course description

This Flinders Learning and Teaching Academy (Hub) event focuses on strategies for developing effective authentic assessment and feedback practices. These workshops are particularly useful for course coordinators, TPDs and topic coordinators.

Workshop 1: Developing Effective Multiple Choice Questions

Facilitated by Philip MacKinnon (Australian Council for Educational Research)

This workshop will help staff to better understand how and where to use MC questions. It will consider what is required to design a good assessment and how to go about writing the questions. Participants will have the opportunity to draft and/or review their own items. Finally, participants will be introduced to the statistical analysis of test questions. Participants will get the most out of the workshop if they bring some existing MC questions or draft some in advance of the workshop.

Program:

1. Where and why use MC questions
2. Assessment design
3. Writing good MC questions
4. Workshop activity: draft and/or review some items
5. Statistical analysis of question performance

The facilitator: Philip MacKinnon has been with the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) since 2011 and has developed assessment from middle primary to tertiary graduate levels. Most recently, he led the development of new content for the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the OECD international test of 15-year-olds sat in around 100 countries. He has experience as a tertiary educator at Monash and Melbourne Universities. 

Workshop 2: Effective Asynchronous, Online Assessment and Feedback

• Determine the planning and design considerations for your assessments when approaching online asynchronous topics
• Reflect on how your approach to the assessment process and provision of feedback to students when operating in an online asynchronous environment
• Develop strategies to apply to your assessment practice 

Workshop 3: Authentic Assessments

• Interactive Oral Assessments (across smaller and very large classes)
• Authentic use of lab books
• Proof of concept task using gen AI
• and others

The final list will be updated as speakers are confirmed.

Type of course

Workshop

Presenters

Who should attend

Course coordinators, TPDs and topic coordinators and any teaching staff or learning design staff interested in assessment.

What you will learn

Each workshop covers different aspects of assessment but these include:

• crafting multiple choice questions
• designing  assessment in asynchronous, online environments
• different ideas for authentic assessments