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Meaningful Assessment

Meaningful assessment (also known as authentic assessment) helps students develop subject-area knowledge, as well as knowledge and skills that may be useful for them in other contexts. By making assessments more meaningful, we can improve the quality and depth of students’ learning, increase their autonomy, and improve their commitment to and motivation for learning.  

Examples:

  • Students to carry out activities that reflect actual practices of a profession within or in similar physical and social contexts of that profession, promoting students’ capabilities to judge the quality of their work.  
  • Assessment activities should encourage students to engage with criteria and standards about what a good performance means, judge their own performance and thereby regulate their learning.  
  • Students to engage in solving actual problems, applying knowledge, and making decisions, which is conducive to the development of cognitive and metacognitive skills.

Reducing & Removing High-Stakes Assessment

Exploring the shift in the sector away from high-stakes assessment

Categories and Types of Assessments

Categories and Types of Assessments

Example: Portfolio Assessment for a Professional Programme

Example from MVLS of portfolio assessment used as an integral form of assessment on a programme

Methods of Assessment

Discussing how we continually enhance our teaching and assessment practices based on evidence of effectiveness for learning

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