Campus-Wide Information Systems: Volume 26 Issue 5

From little things big things grow: scaling‐up assessment of experiential learning

Diana Quinn, Simon Shurville

The new economies of the twenty‐first century require new approaches to learning and teaching from higher education (HE). Accordingly many universities have gradually scaled‐up…

What can you learn in three minutes?: Critical reflection on an assessment task that embeds technology

Natalie Ruth Brown

The purpose of this paper is to critically examine an assessment task, undertaken by pre‐service science teachers, that integrates the use of technology (in this case digital…

Automating formative and summative feedback for individualised assignments

Ian Robert Hamilton

The purpose of this paper is to report on the rationale behind the use of a unique paper‐based individualised accounting assignment, which automated the provision to students of…

Developing team skills with self‐ and peer assessment: Are benefits inversely related to team function?

Keith Willey, Anne Gardner

Self‐ and peer assessment has proved effective in promoting the development of teamwork and other professional skills in undergraduate students. However, in previous research…

Improving self‐ and peer assessment processes with technology

Keith Willey, Anne Gardner

As a way of focusing curriculum development and learning outcomes universities have introduced graduate attributes, which their students should develop during their degree course…

Successful engagement in graduate attribute assessment using software

Darrall Thompson

The benefits of an educational shift to graduate attribute development have been foregrounded in the educational literature since the early 1990s. Attribute mapping in…

Assessment of online discussion in work‐integrated learning

Judith McNamara, Catherine Brown

The purpose of this paper is to examine how online discussion can be used in work‐integrated learning as a vehicle for students to demonstrate their learning in the workplace and…

Using wikis and blogs for assessment in first‐year engineering

Elizabeth Joy Smith, Julie Evelyn Mills, Baden Myers

This paper aims to examine some of the strengths and weaknesses of the use of online tools such as wikis and blogs for assessment purposes, with the aim of proposing future…