This course module and downloadable e-book is for academics to learn about aligning assessment strategies to learning outcomes through backward design.

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It can be used by individual academics or facilitated in a group environment. ‘Backwards design’ is always a great topic for discussion. To what extent do academics work from the intended exit outcomes, to course activities, and the definition of course objectives. Often summative assessment is tacked on at the end after the course content has been taught.

This chapter will help academics to align their assessment strategies using Bloom’s Taxonomy.

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The downloadable assessment alignment handout is useful for creating an assessment strategy and pathway, aligned to the Bloom’s Taxonomy and learning outcomes. Encourage staff to complete the form with their own department or unit in mind. Is the current alignment skewed towards ‘comprehension’ rather than the higher order thinking skills, or not?

This short web resource clearly differentiates between formative and summative assessments. It is a one-minute read.

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This is a background resource for a larger CPD activity. It can be used to provide background reading or act as a reference.

This module in the course and downloadable e-book is for academics to learn about providing feedback or feedforward and assessing performance.

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The module can be used by individual academics as recommended reading or in a formal tutorial setting where participants discuss their perspectives on the chapter’s content.

This web resource is centred around three articles on the topic of providing feedback. The first looks at providing ‘’prioritized, descriptive, constructive, timely and actionable feedback’. The second looks at how you might use technology, specifically audio, to help you provide feedback, and the third looks at evidence-based best practices.

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The three articles could be divided up among staff and then a spokesperson identified, per article, to provide the feedback to the wider staff. Encourage discussion.

Course that does a deep dive into strategies to provide learners with online support. It looks specifically at, establishing a PLE, the teacher as a learning designer, types of learner support, technology to support learner support and, how to quality assure your support mechanism.

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This is a full, part time, self-study course. (4 weeks, 3-5 hours per week.) Access requires a free registration and is intended to be done on the course’s online site. This is ideal for independent study.

A course that looks at the specifics of providing support to learners from assessment to tutorials and web conferencing to communication strategies and more.

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This is a Moodle course that provides guest access. However, to enjoy the full extent of its design its best if this course was run on your own server. Request the back-up file and restore to your own server. The course has lots of forums and collaborative activities. It would be best if a cohort of staff were to attempt the course at the same time as it has a built-in social element to learning.

This Moodle course (which requires guest login) is for academics to consider the different types of technology that can be used for diagnostic, formative and summative assessment. It is a short course that can be facilitated or self-paced. The course provides useful technological tools that can be used by academics that they might not be familiar with.

While there are sections about how AI is changing the way we assess student contributions, it is not the focus which is mostly about setting up good assessment strategies.

Ideas for CPD interventions
This course was originally developed as a CPD course. It was used as a workshop with the LMS being used to hold all the digital resources. CPD activities were done in the training venue, but everyone had access to the learning materials online.

This encyclopaedia entry provides a definitive definition of the term authentic assessment.

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This is a background resource for a larger CPD activity. It can be used to provide background reading or act as a reference.

A short article on how authentic assessment is being integrated into Irish higher education. It has some useful infographics that demonstrate the range of different ways authentic assessment is being used.

Ideas for CPD interventions
This would be a great case study that provides actual examples of how authentic assessment is being integrated into higher education. This could then be used to ask if anything similar is being implemented by faculty, or if for specific ‘pure’ faculties this is very difficult to do.

A contained online training module that looks at assessment as a learning tool. It unpacks summative and formative assessment and how they serve different purposes. 
 
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The training has a number of online activities and quizzes which makes it great for either self-study and/or as a facilitated online training intervention.