Staff + Student LoginA few days back, Grant asked if I would follow up on my promise to write something on assessment. It would be great to get a discussion going around how & why we assess students, so after a bit of thought I decided to kick things off with the following post, derived from my own teaching portfolio document. (I rather feel that I need to be careful that too many of my posts don't become Oracian in length! Not that there's anything wrong with Orac's posts! Quite the contrary.)
For all teachers, the $64-question is whether students are learning (and, whether they're learning what we would wish them to learn!). Assessment is the usual tool for finding this out, although it may have unintended consequences when the nature of the assessment task shapes what and how the students learn. It took me a while to realise this - and it may be that many tertiary teachers still don't realise this, perhaps because they are focused on teaching the content in a particular discipline rather than on the best methods for doing that.
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