Central Principles of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Examining and Assessing (Basics)

Examining and assessing can be challenging, especially for new lecturers in the university context. In this introductory workshop, we will first approach the process of examining and assessing by analyzing the function and importance of the exam in the context of constructive alignment and competence orientation. In a next step, focusing the concequence of learning outcomes in the process of examination, we will consider different learning outcome taxonomies and how to facilitate the formulation of learning outcomes. Implementing their new knowledge, participants will formulate learning outcomes, which we will critically review in the context of formative and summative forms of examining. Finally, we will discuss quality criteria for an examination and reflect the relevance of reference norms and potential assessment errors.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course the participants…

• can evaluate the function of the exam in the model of constructive alignment
• can distinguish between formative and summative forms of examination
• can develop competence-oriented learning outcomes
• can distinguish quality criteria of an exam
• can assess the relevance of reference norms and assessment errors

This Workshop is a part of our new workshop series “Central Principles of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education”.  Central Principles of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education addresses international lecturers who teach at universities in NRW.

Registration

In order to register for one or more workshops, please e-mail to highereducation@hd-nrw.de and include

• the workshop(s) you would like to register for
• your name
• your university
• your faculty
• your department

Registration starts on Monday, September 02.  Registrations received before that date will not be taken into consideration.

Registration is limited to 30 persons per workshop and a maximum of four people per university. Hence early registration is recommended.

Registration deadline is a week before each workshop.