Reflect is a blogging platform provided for use by students and staff at UCL. It is UCL’s branding of the WordPress platforms: CampusPress and EduBlogs, and is what this blog, the Digital Assessment Team blog is written on. Reflect facilitates various educational purposes such asContinue reading… Revolutionising History Assessment using Reflect (WordPress)
Category: Authentic assessment
Contemporary Issues in Higher Education: Effective feedback and authentic assessment
On the 18 January I attended the University of East London Learning and Teaching Symposium on ‘Contemporary issues in Higher Education’. University of East London (UEL) are a ‘careers first’ University, and have 40,000 students from over 160 different countries,Continue reading… Contemporary Issues in Higher Education: Effective feedback and authentic assessment
The Power of Video-Based Assessment at UCL
Video-Based Assessments leverage the dynamic capabilities of video recordings to evaluate students’ knowledge, skills, and abilities. This can take many forms: from standard presentations and recorded field trips to more creative reflections and demonstrations of digital skills. They offer anContinue reading… The Power of Video-Based Assessment at UCL
Assessment optionality: help to shape our research
UCL is working with the University of Manchester, University of York and Imperial on a Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) funded project to explore the potential for assessment optionality – and we want to hear your thoughts. What is assessment optionality?Continue reading… Assessment optionality: help to shape our research
Using Lt in Pharmacy
ADInstruments LabTutor has been used for a number of years by the UCL Medical school. As Dr Pam Houston, Deputy Academic Lead MBBS Year One, UCL Medical School explains in this post about moving teaching online: LabTutor an interface betweenContinue reading… Using Lt in Pharmacy
Engaging students in interdisciplinary teams and real life case studies
Following on from our recent case study Authentic assessment on the Clinical Exercise and Physical Activity module, the Digital assessment team would like to share another example of authentic assessment at UCL. BENV0056 Health and Wellbeing in Cities: Theory andContinue reading… Engaging students in interdisciplinary teams and real life case studies
Authentic assessment on the Clinical Exercise and Physical Activity module
Back in 2004 Gulikers, Bastiaens, and Kirschner defined authentic assessment as: “An assessment requiring students to use the same competencies, or combinations of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that they need to apply in the criterion situation in professional life.” DespiteContinue reading… Authentic assessment on the Clinical Exercise and Physical Activity module