"Summative assessment" refers to measuring student learning after the conclusion of a program by comparing their recall of the taught material – usually by a test that results in individual scores – against a predetermined standard or benchmark. This contrasts with "…

Wendy will lead a discussion based on her current work on engaging students as partners in global learning.

Assessment is central to all forms of education and there is now a wealth of research examining the impact of assessment on learning. Over the past two decades research has highlighted how assessment can work to drive learning, but also the negative consequences of some forms of assessment and…

Convenor: Prof. Peter Reimann, CRLI

Communication and collaboration competences are mentioned prominently amongst the graduate attributes of the University of Sydney, they are also…

Linked (Open) Data is a technology and a political initiative designed to facilitate general access to high quality data from diverse domains. It is a movement which inherits technologies from the Semantic Web effort, and to some extent grew out of some frustration with that initiative. I will…

In this first half of this session, I will present some of the ways that we approach Reflective Writing Analytics at CIC. I will highlight some key characteristics of the psychosocial and computational epistemic domains and outline some of the challenges in bringing them together. To illustrate…

Dr Kate Thompson is the head of the Creative Practice Lab (CPL) at Griffith University. The CPL combines teacher education, digital technologies (including robotics and digital fabrication), with state-of-the-art video recording and online collaboration systems (including a newly designed…

The research in this presentation reports on real-time longitudinal intra-individual data collected in mathematics and English lessons, every school day, across four school weeks. A total of 113 boys and girls in Year 7 from two Australian schools participated.

The widespread availability of learner-related data has the potential to empower students, teachers, parents and school leaders by providing critical insights into the learning process. However, fostering a culture of data-informed learning and teaching in schools remains a significant challenge…

Questions of effectiveness and quality of peer feedback and peer assessment have been very actively discussed from the perspective of the receiver of feedback, however the benefits for the provider of feedback messages have received much less attention, at least in Higher Education. But the…