Summary

Summary

At the end of this topic you should have achieved the following outcomes. You will have: developed an understanding of the purpose of assessment and a definition; familiarised yourself with the language of assessment; evaluated some assessment tasks in your courses against the eight ideals for assessment; investigated your organisational assessment policies; created a checklist based on the 12 principles of effective assessment; evaluated one of the formal assessments you use in your teaching, using the checklist; and identified improvements and changes you might make to your assessments.