Assessing and Evaluating Learning and Teaching

Overview

This unit aims to develop educators’ understanding of assessment design and implementation to support constructively aligned curricula, including authentic, technology-based, and integrity-focused approaches; strengthen the capacity of teachers and students to engage in meaningful feedback processes that enhance learning; and foster reflective teaching practices that lead to improved student outcomes and support professional growth.

Unit learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

1. Characterise contemporary assessment practices from design to application.
2. Design and develop appropriate formative and summative assessments in the context of the relevant unit, course and discipline.
3. Apply a diversity of methods and modes to provide and encourage feedback mechanisms.
4. Evaluate and Enact evidence-based change improvements of their teaching practice informed by assessment.

Teaching methods

Hawthorn Online

Assessment

Content

The roles of assessment

• Assessment for learning and assessment of learning
• Ensuring constructive alignment: assessment, learning outcomes and activities
• Assessment myths and misconceptions
• Authentic assessment

Assessment design

• Designing, implementing, and evaluating summative assessments
• Designing, implementing, and evaluating formative assessments
• Technology-based assessment: Benefits and challenges
• Assessment rubrics
• Academic integrity
• Emerging trends, opportunities and challenges

Feedback

• Feedback to students: The roles of teachers and students
• Feedback to teachers: Designing to encourage student feedback

Evaluating your practice

• Evaluating your teaching through multiple lenses
• Completing the loop: Teaching practice, evaluation and refinement