Assessment

a collection of resources on third-level assessment hosted by the School of Business & Humanities, Institute of Technology, Sligo, Ireland

Fáilte/welcome!

We aim to point you towards information, views, materials, debates and anything else of interest in the area of assessment.

This is a large field, of international interest and concern. So potentially there is a lot of material out there. We have only scratched the surface (if the web has a surface!) and we  depend on you to let us know what's out there.

Most of the resources listed here are outside Ireland. We would love to create a page that had many assessment resources for Irish lecturers. So, if you feel stimulated to create your own pages on assessment related matters, please let us know!

Please send information, feedback, news and views to Perry Share at share.perry@itsligo.ie.

We hope we find the material that follows of use.
Happy Teaching and Assessing!

Perry Share
Majella Mulkeen
School of Business and Humanities
Institute of Technology, Sligo
Ireland

• general teaching and learning sites with lots of links
• specific key links for particular aspects of assessment, including group work, exams, reflective journals, multiple choice tests, computer-aided assessment and others
• hard copy a list of relevant printed resources: books, journals, resource packs, videos and others
• materials from the Assessment Short Course held at IT Sligo in 2000. If you would be interested in running the course at your institution, please contact us.

Say hello to AISHE! - A new Irish organisation that aims to support teaching and learning at third level.

Problem based learning

An approach to teaching and learning that places assessment at the core. A discussion on the Deliberations list stimulated us to put together this useful information.

Life long learning

Open University/University of East London online forum
Not strictly to do with assessment, but this site offers a very interesting collection of papers and debates on LLL.

Exams 
Still a staple of assessment practice, but perhaps they can be done better? Here is some exam advice for: 

• setters 

• sitters

Plagiarism

• Other people's essays - from the new HERO website in the UK

• an interesting discussion took place on the deliberations  discussion group. Read this summary.

• a short essay on the topic

• plagiarism.org - site that sells anti-plagiarism software and also provides useful information on the topic

• the top 100 sites offering free, pre-written essays to students, ready to copy into their word processors! Scary or what?

This page was last updated on 30 May 2003 15:57 by Perry Share

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