Replacing a traditional final exam with a scaffolded group project revealed new opportunities for student learning while challenging our assumptions about authentic assessment.
When students feel lost in the “nitty-gritty”, visual learning tools such as mind maps can help them make meaningful connections across complex content.
Building on a successful 2025 pilot, UNSW is continuing to trial competency-based assessment in selected courses, helping students focus on demonstrating skills and achieving learning outcomes.
UNSW is trialling Cadmus with more than 4000 students to explore how it can strengthen group assessments, improve engagement and support better learning outcomes.
As GenAI reshapes higher education, universities must rethink assessment at the program level to ensure students can genuinely demonstrate learning through future-ready forms of assessment.
By Dr Fida Hasan and Dr Chris Campbell. As generative AI reshapes assessment, immersive learning can offer a path to authentic engagement that can't be outsourced.
For many new-to-university students, being graded is a source of not just stress, but distress. Competency-based assessment is showing promise as a way to foster creativity and intrinsic motivation in students, while supporting their wellbeing.
An ambitious pilot by a cross-faculty consortium of course convenors reveal there’s no ‘one-size fits all’ when it comes to exploring alternatives to standard grading.
