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- Online teaching mode
- A teaching mode in which students do not need to be on campus.
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- Online/digital presentation
- In this task students, either individually or in groups, can present on a given topic using a digital platform such as Pinterest or Padlet.
For example, prior to the presentation students can post a link to their Pinterest page on Blackboard and during presentations audience members can use Padlet to leave ‘real-time’ comments about the presentation that inform class discussion. The presenting group is marked on both their presentation and how well they engage the class.
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- Oral
- A range of assessment types (including a presentation) that are required to be completed in a voiced form.
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- Oral presentation
- A type of presentation task whereby students communicate through speech to an audience who are usually made up of their peers and instructors. Presenters are often encouraged to use multimedia aids such as prepared handouts and/or PowerPoint slides.
Oral presentations are effective teaching tools which add variety to the classroom and allow students the opportunity to learn from one another. Particular topics can be assigned requiring students to learn more about the subject. The presenting students then take on a teaching role in sharing that new information to the class through their presentation.
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- Padlet
- A synchronous collaborative web-based platform often used by teachers as a virtual wall for students to post responses to stimulus.
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- Panel discussion
- A defined group of students (a panel) conduct a discussion in front of an audience.
A student panel discussion task can be based on relevant course topic or discourse such as an assigned reading.
The audience can participate in the discussion and provide input.
This task type draws on an immersive pedagogy in which learning takes place within the interactive exchange between and among students and teachers.
A panel discussion encourages the creative generation of new (cogenerated) knowledge and ideas through critical discussion and fosters collaboration (group work) capabilities which are ranked highly as employable skills.
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- Participant observation
- Participating in an activity whilst also observing the activity.
Participant observation is a key method in ethnographic research whereby the researcher (traditionally an anthropologist) takes part in the events they are observing, describing, and analysing. As an assessment task, the ‘ethnographer’ learns from ‘ordinary people’ or local experts via a research process of closely observing, recording, and engaging in the daily life of a group community or ‘culture’, and then writes accounts of this experience, emphasising descriptive detail. Participant observation tasks require the student to take part in the events they study in order to understand local thought and behaviour through experiential learning.
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- Peer-led learning
- In peer-led learning students themselves facilitate their learning, and the learning of other students.
Typically, certain students (those at a more advanced level of study or who are excelling in the course) act as peer-leaders.
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- Peer-review
- A process whereby students evaluate the work of their peers.
This task is similar to the peer-review of journal articles completed by acadreview of journal articles completed by academics.
Students can remain anonymous to facilitate unbiased reviews.
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- Performative
- An authentic assessment form for disciplines where performance work is standard (e.g. drama, and other creative industries).
Performative deliveries include student created video submissions, set designs, theatrical performance pieces, dramaturgical mock interviews, news broadcasts, television/gameshows, soap operas, movie pitches, or art exhibitions or critiques.
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