Teaching & Learning Resources

Useful websites

AAHE Assessment Forum
AAHE Assessment Forum is the primary national network connecting and supporting higher education stakeholders involved in assessment. It promotes thoughtful, effective approaches to assessment that involve faculty, benefit students, and improve the quality of teaching and learning. It helps campuses, programs, and individuals to plan, implement, and share the results of their assessment efforts by publishing, networking, and sponsoring an annual national conference.
http://www.aahe.org/assessment/

American Association for Higher Education Assessment Forum
The 9 Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning
http://www.aahe.org/assessment/principl.htm

Assessing Learning in Australian Universities
http://www.cshe.unimelb.edu.au/assessinglearning/

Writing objective tests
Want to know how to write tight, interesting and challenging questions for short tests, like MCQs? Then this is the site for you - the UK's Computer Assisted Assessment Centre will tell you everything you need to know and more! Learn about test styles like assertion/reason, sore finger, multiple response, text/numerical, ranking, graphical hotspot & T/F as well as all about the anatomy of a question, and writing stems & distracters
http://caacentre.lboro.ac.uk/resources/objective_tests/index.shtml

Information & Information Technology Literacy: A Guide for Supervisors & Selection Committee Members
http://info.anu.edu.au/hr/Training_and_Development/ANU_Staff/Information_Literacy/
index.asp

Tutorials

LILI - Learn Information Literacy Initiative
LILI provides tutorials which will assist you in your search for information using TAFE library catalogues, the World Wide Web, and electronic databases. Winner of the Inaugural 2002 Training Initiative Award in SA
http://www.tafe.sa.edu.au/lili/