Day and time: Thursday, August 31, 11:00-12:30.
Session Leader: Matyas Szabo
Description: Assessment is integral to the achievement of good university learning and to good course design. This session will discuss the general role and major characteristics of student assessment in a student-centered learning paradigm, by looking at assessment as a way of enhancing learning, rather than only measuring the fulfillment of learning outcomes. The session will also address the question on how to select and align assessment tools to the aims, and learning outcomes of a given course.
Preparatory reading: Phil Race. 2003. “Why Assess Innovatively.” In Assessment Matters in Higher Education: Choosing and Using Diverse Approaches, eds. Sally Brown and Angela Glasner. Buckingham: The Society for Research in Higher Education and Open University Press, pp. 57-70.