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The portfolio as a creative authentic assessment task

By Leslie McInnes,

“There is a tremendous difference between learning about physics and learning to be a physicist”

Do you know what they don’t know? Item Analysis could tell you

By Phillip Mills,

Raw marks and descriptive statistics are poor guides to what students do and don’t understand in a quiz. Item analysis helps you dive deeper and discover which questions students struggle with.

4 tools students can use for group assessments

By Amanda Sampol,

On average, how many emails do you get from students complaining about group work? How much time do you spend dealing with issues of student collaboration, accountability and time management? If this sounds familiar, you should try introducing students to collaborative platforms for their group assessments.

In a nutshell: Formative Assessment

By Lucy Arthur,

Got two minutes? Here’s a quick refresher on formative assessment.

5 simple ways to improve assessment in your subject

By Futures Team,

Here are five ways to improve the assessment process for both you and your students...based on the real experiences of five UTS academics.

Join the team! Two academic positions in IML

By Futures Team,

The Institute for Interactive Media and Learning, UTS is recruiting for two academic positions.

Put your students at the centre!

By Adrian Norman,

A simple model to help you design teaching that puts your students at the centre of the learning experience.

Upgrade your feedback process with OnTask

By Jurgen Schulte,

Want to find out how OnTask can help you? Read on, and come along to the upcoming OnTask workshop...

Come to the Real Words Film Festival

By Jane Hunter,

Real Words is a 3 minute film festival featuring the work English preservice teachers. The short films were produced from 300 word scripts that comprised major assessment components of the unit English Teaching Methods 3 in the Master of Teaching (Secondary) program.

Help with Subject Outlines: Upcoming dates

By Laura Carmody,

Dates for 1-1 training for any user of Subject Outlines. PLUS a demo of the new function that automatically makes your PDF available in UTSOnline.

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