Presentations are useful for building students’ skills to explain concepts and ideas. Since many recruitment processes and jobs require presentations, they are also an authentic assessment approach.

Tiffany Mungin spent many nervous weeks researching and writing her paper about the Vietnam War. Her high school graduation was on the line. Unlike most New York state seniors, who vied for their ...

Sarah Montano offers insight on redesigning assessment in the digital space to test the skills students will need in their future careers Academics have had to shift to online delivery of our teaching ...

When designing formative assessments, instructors need to think about aligning the assessed knowledge and skills, as well the assessment format itself, with desired learning outcomes and with 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 ...

This authentic assessment was developed for a first year BSc Business and Management core module. Students work in groups to develop and present solutions to real business challenges. These challenges ...

How industry partnerships and digital credentials can close the skills gap To embed the skills students will need to thrive beyond their studies, lecturers need to assess how they’re going to use them ...

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 ...

In an excellent column, Ray Schroeder, senior fellow for the Association of Leaders in Online and Professional Education, laments the tendency for many instructors to rely on text-specific test banks ...