Effective Assessment

Janet Macaulay and Phillip Nagley

This presentation describes the Student Project Cases (SPC) process and how the leaning objectives have been attained. Using video footage, Janet and Phillip demonstrate the breadth and quality of the SPC presentations. Finally they discuss the assessment process and evaluations of the SPC process.

Using WebCT to Facilitate More Flexible and Effective Assessment of Student Written Work: the first year Biology experience (pdf, 954 KB)

Gerry Rayner

Biology

Clayton

This project investigated the integration, utilisation and effectiveness of electronic methods for the submission and assessment of student written work in a first year Biology unit. Both students and markers gave strongly positive feedback regarding the system's convenience, effectiveness and ease of use. An unexpected outcome was that students using this method achieved higher exam results than the comparative cohort from earlier years who used the traditional methods.

Managing and Assessing Group Work (pdf, 125 KB)

Jason Ceddia and Sylvia Tucker

The Industrial Experience project is an innovative new initiative for third year Bachelor of Computing students, wherein they have to deliver a complete and usable product to a client. In 2003, 315 students made individual projects for 63 separate clients. This was made possible by the introduction of the Web Industrial Experience Resource (WEIR) developed as a comprehensive distributed project management tool. This presentation demonstrates the process in action.