CTL announces the third workshop in the Assess for Success Webinar and Workshop series taking place on Friday 20th May, 11.00 – 13.00. This workshop is entitled Authentic Assessment and the presenters will be Professor Sally Brown and Professor Kay Sambell.
Information about the event is included below.
To register for this event please click here.
The final session in this series, Feedback, including Feedback Literacy, is planned for the Friday 10th of June.
All Maynooth University staff are welcome to attend all sessions.
Please email us at teachingandlearning@mu.ie if you would like further information on any of these events.
Authentic Assessment
This workshop will consider how authentic assessment activities can be designed and managed to foster student engagement and effective learning. Authentic assessment includes, but goes well beyond, fostering skills to support employability and can involve the development of confidence and self-efficacy.
This session will enable participants to:
- Discuss what constitutes authentic assessment and how we can use it pragmatically in our programmes;
- Consider some examples of authentic assessment as implemented across levels and disciplines in higher education globally;
- Work through a six-stage process to design authentic assessment activities based on realistic scenarios and plausible contexts;
- Discuss how this approach can be implemented effectively in programmes at Maynooth University.