Assessment

Assessment is one of the main factors affecting what students can achieve in their learning. It greatly influences how they learn, and how they interact with the learning environment.

The careful design of assessment tasks can positively impact the quality of learning and ensure that students meet the intended learning outcomes.

Assessment can enhance the quality of learning and provide credible evidence of students’ achievement of the learning outcomes.

Assessment lies at the heart of learning and teaching, functioning as an essential tool for learning and teaching and a measure of their effectiveness, as expressed in the knowledge, skills, and capabilities of graduates.

“Assessment plays a key role in both fostering learning and the certification of students. However, unless it first satisfies the educational purpose of ensuring students can identify high quality work and can relate this knowledge to their own work, the likelihood that they will reach high standards themselves is much reduced.”

Boud, D. and Associates (2010), Assessment 2020: Seven propositions for assessment reform in higher education. Sydney: Australian Learning and Teaching Council