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- Personalised learning
- Learning tasks in which students have some degree of choice in the mode or style of learning.
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- Pinterest
- An image-oriented collation and sharing platform.
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- Policy Document
- Students are asked to write a policy document such as a ministerial policy recommendation or a government departmental policy submission proposing the introduction of a new policy.
It is well-suited to upper level courses as students are moving towards areas of professional practice.
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- Portfolio
- An organized collection a student’s work that exhibits direct evidence of a student’s efforts, achievements, and progress over a period of time.
Electronic version of these are referred to as e-portfolios.
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- Poster
- Students convey information in poster format.
A poster presentation requires students to communicate in an effective and concise format. This task requires planning and preparation in selecting content which conveys key information succinctly.
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- Practical
- The practical demonstration of knowledge through doing.
Examples of practical assessments include laboratory work, computer simulations and programming.
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- Practical exam
- An assessment technique that assesses how students complete a set task.
The practical exam can take the form of delivering an interactive demonstration focusing on a key task or content area (e.g. teaching literacy through dance); using a specific piece of equipment (e.g. excavation tools used in Archaeology); or fostering co-created knowledge and experience (e.g. for introductory or team building exercises).
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- Presentation
- Students present material to an audience.
Presentations can be in oral online, video or poster formats.
Students can be tasked to present individually or as a group exercise.
Presentations are learning tools which develop communication, design, comprehension, synthesis and analysis skills.
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- Problem based learning
- Problem-Based Learning is a teaching method in which complex real-world problems are used as the vehicle to promote student learning of concepts and principles (as opposed to the direct presentation of facts and concepts).
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- Project
- A highly authentic multi-step assessment method that generally requires the production of output. The large scale of projects usually benefit from staged assessment to provide multiple points of feedback, such as a pitch, a project plan, etc.
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