ABSTRACT

Student populations have become increasingly diverse in the past decades, but Higher Education Institutions have not been evolving their assessment practices at the same rate. This study used a survey to investigate the barriers and enablers to diversifying assessment including using student choice of assessment. In examples where educators had diversified students’ assessment tasks, it also explored its benefits, outcomes and the association between familiarity, resources and success of the assessment implementation. The findings identified that student engagement and empowerment were key benefits to diversification. There was an overall perception that time and resources were the greatest barriers but this was not supported in the examples provided. The fear of grade inflation, when diversifying, appears to run counter intuitive to supporting student success in assessment. Further work needs to be done to interrogate what is meant by the concept of ‘diverse assessment’ and to support educators in its implementation.

摘要

在过去的几十年中，学生群体变得越来越多样化，但是高等教育机构并没有以同样的速度发展其评估实践。这项研究使用了一项调查来调查各种评估的障碍和促成因素，包括使用学生选择的评估。在教育工作者使学生的评估任务多样化的示例中，它还探讨了其收益，成果以及熟悉程度，资源和评估实施成功之间的关联。调查结果表明，学生的参与和赋权是多元化的主要好处。人们普遍认为，时间和资源是最大的障碍，但这在所提供的示例中并未得到支持。多样化时，担心等级通胀 似乎与支持学生的评估成功背道而驰。需要做进一步的工作来审视“多样化评估”概念的含义，并支持教育工作者对其实施。