Introducing Assessment Practice

Overview

What you will study

Over nine weeks in the Introducing Assessment Practice course offered by University of Cambridge you'll: 

• Explore the uses, purposes and types of assessment and consider the principles of quality assessment

• Build an understanding of the key stages in designing and developing a qualification

• Learn how the assessment material creation process works, including learning outcomes, assessment objectives, mark schemes and assessment grids 

• Understand the importance of standardisation and moderation of marking

• Discover tools to evaluate the quality of existing or planned assessments

• Practice the skills needed to describe and evaluate issues with the development of a qualification and the associated assessment materials and processes 

• Scrutinise assessment materials from a variety of contexts

• Have anytime access to our virtual learning environment to learn flexibly in your own time.

• Connect and learn with other practitioners as you discuss key issues in assessment practice as you work through course action points.