Assessment and Feedback Forum at UTS

International scholar Emeritus Professor Chris Rust is visiting UTS on Tuesday 4 July and will present a keynote and workshop based on his extensive research on assessment.

In between the keynote and workshop, there will be opportunities to hear about interesting assessment and feedback practices from across UTS, and to give feedback on the proposed new assessment policy and procedures.  Please register for the keynote and presentation and/or workshop below.

Curriculum design and assessment: Bringing students and staff into the community of assessment practice
Keynote, 4 July, 9.30-11am, Room CB11.00.401

Assessment is a vitally important influence on student learning. This presentation will highlight current problems of curriculum design assessment and offer some solutions, considering program-focused assessment design, how best to record summative assessment of learning outcomes, improve formative assessment and bring staff and students into the community of assessment practice.

Assessment practice and policy at UTS
Presentation, 4 July, 11.30-12.30pm, Room CB11.00.401

This session will be an opportunity to hear about some examples of engaging and authentic assessment practice at UTS.  There will also be a brief update on the new proposed UTS assessment policy, which has been endorsed by Teaching and Learning committee and is due to go to Academic Board in August.

Engaging students with assessment and feedback
Workshop, 4 July, 2-3pm, Room CB06.03.051

For students to reach their potential in terms of their assessed performance they need to become assessment literate. This workshop will focus on how we can engage students more effectively with assessment tasks, criteria and feedback. You will have the opportunity to engage with how you might improve assessment in your own subjects.

Emeritus Professor Chris Rust

Emeritus Professor of Higher Education, Oxford Brookes University. Before retiring in September, 2014, after over 25 years at Brookes, Chris had been Associate Dean (Academic Policy). Previously, for ten years, he was Head of the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development (OCSLD), and Deputy Director of the Human Resource Directorate. Between 2005 – 2010 he was also a Deputy Director for two Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning – ASKe (Assessment Standards Knowledge Exchange) and the Reinvention Centre for undergraduate research (led by Warwick University).

Most recently he has increasingly focused on researching and writing about assessment, including: improving student learning through active engagement with assessment feedback, and the significance of both explicit articulation and socialisation processes in improving students’ understanding of assessment requirements and assessment feedback.

Chris is a Keynote speaker at the HERDSA 2017 conference, Sydney, June 27-30. 

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Your video, audio and the meeting chat transcript may be recorded or photographed. Please advise the facilitator if you do not wish to be recorded or photographed.

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