To embed the skills students will need to thrive beyond their studies, lecturers need to assess how they’re going to use them in their future lives. Enter authentic assessment – a holistic approach ...

Students on hard skills-intensive courses such as computer science need to develop effective communication and other soft skills. Bernardo Pereira Nunes offers three assessments to help How can you ...

Engaging in authentic assessment as a principle and practice takes time, effort, and intention from both faculty and students. For smaller classes, students might have a semester-long project that ...

Darla K. Deardorff, Ed.D. Editor’s Note: Many educators struggle with how to assess global competence. Dr. Darla K. Deardorff, Affiliated Faculty at Duke University, shares four ways to get started, ...

Authentic assessment takes many different formats, but one characteristic is that it usually has an audience beyond the marker and an imagined purpose beyond completing an assessment ‘just for the ...

Follow the recommended actions, gain insights from the tips and learn from the examples in each of the five steps outlined below to design an authentic assessment for your context. Determine if ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: What is “performance assessment” and how and why should I use it with students? Assessment is an obvious key part of our work as educators. There are many different ...