Quick Guides for learning and teaching
Bite sized chunks of learning and teaching theory and practice – a quick read at just 1 or 2 A4 pages each.
Each guide provides links to additional resources should you wish to explore further.
| Quick Guide (and link) | Description |
| Actioning Evaluation | Advice on interpreting the results of TEDS surveys with links and resources to help you take action to improve future outcomes. |
| Constructive Alignment | Defining and applying constructive alignment. |
| Evaluation Surveys | An overview of the TEDS survey instruments used at Macquarie University to formally evaluate the student experience of the unit and teaching practices. |
| Evidencing your teaching | How to evidence your teaching practice using multiple quantitative and qualitative data sources from within and beyond the classroom. |
| Feedback Methods | Specifying how feedback will happen in a unit. |
| Feedback Strategies for Markers | A guide for markers on providing impactful feedback that is time efficient and effective. |
| Grade Descriptors | Defining and applying grade descriptors and standards to evaluate student performance. |
| Improving Feedback Impact and Quality | Using different types of feedback and feed-forward strategies, as well as using feedback activities in lectures, tutorials and iLearn sites. |
| Informal Evaluation | Finding out what students think of your unit using methods other than the end of session surveys. |
| Learning Outcomes | Writing feasible learning outcomes. |
| Live Class Workbooks | Set up and use live class workbooks (editable shared online documents). See an example workbook format template file (docx). |
| Oral Assessment | Explore types of oral assessment and how to implement interactive online oral assessment. |
| Peer Marking | How to guide students on peer marking and decide which tools to use to support the process. |
| Programmatic Assessment | Programmatic assessment can establish a wholistic picture of student performance against course level learning outcomes by gathering triangulated evidence from multiple points throughout the student’s learning journey – “a programme of assessment”. |
| Quiz Analysis | Analysing the performance of iLearn (Moodle) quiz questions can help improve the quality of quiz assessment tasks. iLearn provides statistical reports for the quiz overall and individual questions. |
| Quiz Randomisation | Using the different types of randomisation in iLearn (Moodle) quizzes can reduce opportunities for academic integrity breaches. |
| Rubric Design | Creating and using rubrics that are easy for students and markers to understand. |
| Student Participation | Ways to encourage student participation. |
| Student Workload | Specifying how students will spend their time in the unit’s activities (how many hours). |
| Unit Activities | Specifying classes and learning activities. |
| Unit Assessment | Specifying how students will be assessed. |
| Unit Guides | What should be included in a Unit Guide. How to write a good unit description. |
| Universal Design for Learning | Designing materials, methods and assessment to serve all students to the greatest extent possible. |
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