Category: Assessment
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Greenwich 2024: Workshop on Assessment and Wellbeing
Authentic no-exam assessment for student wellbeing There is compelling evidence that high-stakes exams are detrimental to student wellbeing and further that these effects are not uniform across demographics. In this invited talk the Middlesex maths team shared their experiences of replacing all exams on specialist maths modules with authentic coursework assessments for a better and…
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CETL-MSOR 2023: Authenticity in Learning, Teaching and Assessment
Middlesex University has long been focused teaching our students thepractical skills they need for their careers. Taking this as our guidingprinciple while revalidating our undergraduate mathematics programmeswe decided to radically rethink how we approached assessment to build inmore continuous assessment that could be contextualised in an authenticway. To prepare students for their mathematical careers we…
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CETL-MSOR 2023: No-Exam Mathematics
Automating coursework in Word, LaTeX and RMarkdown Mathematics students at Middlesex University are assessed primarilythrough coursework following a radical redesign of the programmes thatremoved all exams. From 2019 the Middlesex Mathematics team aimed togive students greater opportunity for assessment using authentic problems and real-life data of the kind they would encounter in their mathematical careers.…