Campus-Wide Information Systems: Volume 26 Issue 5
Table of contents - Special Issue: Technology to enhance student engagement with assessment (selected papers from the ATN Assessment conference 2008)
Guest Editors: Diana Quinn, Simon Shurville
From little things big things grow: scaling‐up assessment of experiential learning
Diana Quinn, Simon ShurvilleThe 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 BrownThe 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 HamiltonThe 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 GardnerSelf‐ 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 GardnerAs 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 ThompsonThe 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 BrownThe 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 MyersThis 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…