Designing an educational studies course for international learners meant rethinking assessment, from traditional exams to a more practical, student-informed approach. Here’s what worked All students ...

Has our focus on authentic assessment developed a blind spot? Authentic assessment asks students to use the same set of knowledge, competencies and attitudes they’ll use as graduates, connecting ...

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 ...

A mentor once told me that ‘why’ is often the elusive, if not the most uncomfortable question, yet the most illuminating, if approached with sobriety and objectivity. As the national exams trudge on, ...