UNSW Assessment as Learning Toolkit

Welcome to the Assessment Toolkit. Here you will find an evolving collection of practical resources to help you with assessment. The Premise throughout this Toolkit is that assessment should focus primarily on learning and the achievement of intended learning outcomes. This reflects the premise on which the UNSW Assessment Policy is based.

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Assessment Methods

The selection of appropriate assessment methods in a course is influenced by many factors: the intended learning outcomes, the discipline and related professional standards, the context of the…

Critical Thinking

Your students need to develop awareness of the elements of critical thinking, so that they can demonstrate them in their assignments. To begin with, students may be confused when asked to think more…

Designing Assessment

We assess student work so both teachers and learners can see what students know, and what they need to know in order to improve. For this reason the core principle underlying the Assessment Toolkit…

Developing an Argument

Lecturers and tutors regard students' development of an argument in essays or assignments as essential. Very frequently, teachers find lack of an argument, or an undeveloped argument, to be an issue…

Digital Assessment at UNSW

UNSW is committed to providing our community with an excellent digital assessment experience and has partnered with Inspera to provide an end-to-end digital assessment platform. Inspera is a…

Digital Assessment Toolkit

This toolkit is designed to assist in selecting educational strategies and the technology to use for digital assessments.

Giving Assessment Feedback

Feedback has a significant impact on learning (Cohen & Singh, 2020); it has been described as "the most powerful single moderator that enhances achievement" (Hattie, 1999). The main…

Grading and Giving Feedback

Grading is the process of interpreting student learning products and performance to: Reflect where students stand in relation to an orderly development of competence. Inform both student and…

Grading Class Participation

Teachers often include the assessment of classroom participation – or classroom contribution, as it is sometimes called – in an assessment strategy to encourage students to participate in class…

Interpreting and Grading Learning

Grading (or marking) is the process of interpreting students' learning products and performance for the purposes of: reflecting where students stand in relation to an orderly development…

Oral Assessment

The oral assessment, often referred to as ‘viva voce’, ‘living voice’ in Latin, has been growing in popularity across higher education, and it is viewed as an authentic, secure, and versatile means…

Reducing Plagiarism

Why do students plagiarise? There are many reasons students might use other people's work as if it were their own. They may be unaware of referencing conventions, or lack experience in…