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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Responding to Cross-Cultural Diversity

Today's university classrooms are culturally and linguistically diverse. This poses challenges for both students and academics, who must cope with different learning styles, unfamiliar learning…

Reviewing Assessment Quality

Higher-education institutions are more and more often being asked to demonstrate the quality of their educational provision. In response, we've redoubled our efforts to improve teaching and learning,…

Selecting Assessment Methods

The assessment tasks you select should align well with the intended learning outcomes (see Aligning Assessment with Outcomes), and focus the overall design for assessment on encouraging, enabling and…

Selecting Assessment Technologies

It's important to note up front that you should incorporate digital devices into your assessment plan only if adding them improves the quality of the student learning experience. Improving assessment…

Standards-Based Assessment

Standards-based assessment depends on a set of pre-defined statements that outline different levels or standards of achievement in a program, course or assessment component, and that are normally…

Student Peer Assessment

Peer assessment is the evaluation of students' work by other students of equal status. Students often undertake peer assessment in conjunction with formal self-assessment. They reflect on their own…

Student Self-Assessment

Student self-assessment occurs when learners assess their own performance. With practice, they learn to: objectively reflect on and critically evaluate their own progress and skill development …

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…

Using Assessment Rubrics

A rubric for assessment, usually in the form of a matrix or grid, is a tool used to interpret and mark students' work against criteria and standards. Rubrics are sometimes called "criteria sheets", …