Oral assessments are becoming more prevalent in higher education, in many instances, to safeguard against vulnerabilities of traditional assessments posed by GenAI. However, in addition to encouraging academic integrity, a well-designed oral assessment can give you a deeper understanding of students' competence in your course whilst helping students to build communication and other transferable skills. This Lightning Workshop will introduce different models of oral assessment, including the viva voce, interactive oral and small group discussion and give examples of these modes. We will then look at strategies for designing, scaffolding and implementing such assessments. You will have time to discuss how you might apply these principles in an oral assessment in your course.
Staff are asked to bring with them resources relevant to the session, such as their course outline, a learning activity and the highest weighted assessment they are currently using in the course or an assessment they have identified an issue with.
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Speaker
Meredith MacAulay
Nexus Education Developer, Arts, Design & Architecture
Meredith MacAulay is an educational developer in ADA, with the Nexus program and a sessional academic in the School of Education, currently teaching a course on developing students' oracy. She has extensive experience in TESOL (Teaching English to Students of Other Languages) in a range of contexts, specialising in academic English and literacy for higher education and is skilled in curriculum and assessment design. She enjoys supporting academics in addressing tricky challenges in course design, assessment and delivery.