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Diving Deeper With Assessment, Hilary Hollingsworth
Diving Deeper With Assessment, Hilary Hollingsworth
Dr Hilary Hollingsworth
ACER is helping educators to understand and implement assessment practices for positive classroom change and improved learning.
Quality Assurance In Gp Training, Daniel Edwards
Quality Assurance In Gp Training, Daniel Edwards
Dr Daniel Edwards
An annual survey is collecting information about the postgraduate training experiences of General Practice registrars across Australia.
Work Integrated Learning: A Lesson In Good Wil, Daniel Edwards
Work Integrated Learning: A Lesson In Good Wil, Daniel Edwards
Dr Daniel Edwards
Successful and sustainable work integrated learning programs share a number of key elements, as Daniel Edwards explains.
Improving Assessment Processes And Quality In Medical Specialisations, Daniel Edwards
Improving Assessment Processes And Quality In Medical Specialisations, Daniel Edwards
Dr Daniel Edwards
ACER’s work for a number of specialist colleges in medicine is contributing to higher quality education, as Daniel Edwards explains.
Remember The Students: Lessons For Learning Outcomes Assessments, Jacob Pearce, Daniel Edwards
Remember The Students: Lessons For Learning Outcomes Assessments, Jacob Pearce, Daniel Edwards
Dr Jacob Pearce
Assessments of student learning outcomes are important for institutional and system-level quality assurance, but should also help students improve their knowledge and skills.
Remember The Students: Lessons For Learning Outcomes Assessments, Jacob Pearce, Daniel Edwards
Remember The Students: Lessons For Learning Outcomes Assessments, Jacob Pearce, Daniel Edwards
Dr Daniel Edwards
Assessments of student learning outcomes are important for institutional and system-level quality assurance, but should also help students improve their knowledge and skills.
Pathways To University: Beyond Prior School Achievement, Daniel Edwards
Pathways To University: Beyond Prior School Achievement, Daniel Edwards
Dr Daniel Edwards
Daniel Edwards explores whether Australia’s university admissions pathways adequately meet the needs of students and society.
Assessing Vocational Competencies In Civil Engineering: Lessons From Ahelo For Future Practice, Jacob Pearce
Assessing Vocational Competencies In Civil Engineering: Lessons From Ahelo For Future Practice, Jacob Pearce
Dr Jacob Pearce
There has been much interest in the notion of vocational competencies of late. The pressing question, however, is how to measure vocational competencies. In order to contribute to this ‘how’, the results of the Civil Engineering strand of the recent Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO) Feasibility Study are discussed. The focus of the assessment instrument was explicitly on “above content” areas of the domain, and the assessment framework provides an example of a construct which articulates certain domain-specific competence components. This paper draws specific attention the Constructed Response Tasks (CRTs) in the instrument and discusses the results of …